Commercial Satellites for
Secure Military
Communications
ViaSat -1
Launch Scheduled Q1 2011
C4ISR, Cyber Security, Robot Platforms
& Sensors Conference & Exhibition
October 6-7, 2009
Jerry Goodwin
Jerry.Goodwin@viasat.com
Commercial Mobile Broadband
Ku-Band SATCOM
 BizJets: 100+ in Service
 Gulfstream V, IV, 450, 550
 Bombardier Global Express
 Bombardier Challenger 600
 Cessna Citation X
 Boeing Business Jet
 Maritime: 500+ vessels
 Leisure yachts
 Fishing vessels
 Coast Guard
 Merchant ships
Current Coverage
 High Speed Rail: 55+
 France SNCF TGV
Broadband Performance: 10 Mbps
forward link, 512 Kbps return link,
thousands of subscribers
2010 Coverage
Military Mobile Broadband
Ku-Band SATCOM
• 80+ AISR & C2 Aircraft Systems
• SpOps, JCSE, Commando Solo, & Compass
Call C-130’s
• US Army TF-ODIN King Air 300’s
• USAF Liberty King Air 350ER’s
• Gov’t customer Pilatus PC-12’s
• Army Aviation Blackhawk helicopters trial
• Private Mobile Networks
• 3, Regional In-Theater networks
Private Networks
• Boeing Broadband Satcom
Network Performance: Moving
Broadband
• 23 Senior Leadership (VIPSAM)
toward 20
Mbps forward link, 1 Mbps
Aircraft
return• link,
hundreds of subscribers
10 Stryker vehicles
• Multi-regional coverage
USAF Liberty
TF ODIN
SpOps
Selected for Best in Capacity!
The Newest Standards in Satcom Networking
Current SATCOM Security Approach
Type 1 HAIPE
Network Encryptor
for COMSEC
Point-to-Point
3000 Fielded
MIL-STD-188-165B
Modem
MD-1366 EBEM
Mesh – Any-to-Any
5000 Fielded
Modem Includes NSA Evaluated
FIPS 140-2 TRANSEC
WIN-T & USMC SWAN
LINKWAY S2
Hub & Spoke (Client Server)
Shipping Spring
2010
DoD Standard for IP
Networks
MD-1377 JOINT IP
MODEM
Very High Capacity
Satellites
A different satellite for a different
mission
Satellite Traditions
Two Problems w/ Satellite
There is a whole industry –
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outside
of satellite -providing products, like AcceleNet,
to overcome high latency,
»low bandwidth, problematic network connections
Very High Capacity SATCOM
Conventional
ViaSat-1
 Broadcast centric
 Data centric
 Broadest reach
 High demand markets
 Broad antenna beams
 Small “spot” beams
 Flexible services
 Unicast, regional
 Ground “conformity”
 Ground “optimized”
 Key unit: “transponder”  Key unit “Gbps”
Satellites designed for a different MISSION
Today’s Commercial Ka-band Capacity
Is Over 10x Military Ka-band …
Commercial Broadband, Ka-band
Satellite Evolution
Wildblue Service
•$49 / month satellite broadband
•WildBlue began Jun ’05, Telesat Canada began Jun ’05
•Fastest growing satellite consumer broadband ever
-400,000 net customers in 2 ½ years
- Shipped 35,000 terminals/month
- Total terminal price approximately
$350 ea
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WildBlue-1
Broadband Performance:
Dec1.5
2006Mbps
forward link, 256 Kbps return link,
hundreds of thousands of subscribers
Spaceway-3
Aug 2007
… with ViaSat-1 to Provide 100 Gbps!
Next Generation ViaSat-1 designed to
Serve High Demand Areas of US
ViaSat-1 Capacity
Targeted at 70% of
US Population & the
High Demand
Satellite Broadband
Market Areas, First
Quarter 2011
Broadband Performance: 8 Mbps
Capacity
forward link,Viasat-1
2 Mbps
return link, millions
WildBlue
Customer Density
of subscribers
(as presented by WildBlue
at Lehman Conference 03-12-08)
… and KaSat-1 to Provide 70Gbps!
ViaSat Networking System
SATSOFT
Plus KaSat-1 (Eutelsat) to Serve
High Demand Areas of Europe
Additional International Extensions
 In discussions with operators for similar
satellites/services over:
 Middle East and Africa
 Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Rim
 China & India
 Latin and South America
 Japan
Extraordinary Capacity:
‘Bits in Space’…
…and Achieving Superior
Capital Efficiency
Estimated 2-Way Bandwidth
$M/Gbps
Capital Cost (Satellite on-orbit)
$225
$250
$167
$150
$40
$50
$3.50
$5
$14
ViaSat-1 KaSat-1 YahSat
WildBlue WGS
SpaceWay
Ku FSS
The Ku/Ka Coverage Map: 2010
Train in the US, Stage in Europe, Field in Mid-East or Africa
Key: Blended Network Allows Mobile Broadband at Much Lower Rates
Terminal Proposition
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper!
Would you rather buy this…
Ku
2.4m
LAN MGT
Battalion Command
Post Node
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NIPR
2.4m Trailer plus
baseband vehicle
3Mbps Mesh
2-8Mbps Point-to-Point
$500K/Terminal
$8.5-31.6K/Month
airtime
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.7m Portable
5 Mbps Transmit
30 Mbps Receive
$50K/Terminal
$100-$1000/Month
airtime
SIPR
….. or this?
Expanded Operations in Theater
Improved Ability to Concentrated Forces
 What DoD realizes with
Afghanistan AOR Example:
 25 Gbps vs. 1.5 Gbps!
 At a cost savings of ~ $240M1
WGS:
 7 Predators
(67% decrease)
 0 Brigade Combat Teams
 # Brigade Combat Teams
 Iraq: 12
 Afghanistan: 3
 CONUS/OCONUS: 43
 # Predators and Global
Hawks in USAF inventory
at present is about 170
 What a DoD ViaSat
Broadband Performance: You could put
broadband Ka-band
2 Predators and 2 Brigade Combat
satellite will support:
 100 Predators Teams in any beam each with a 300
based on capital (Satellite on-orbit)
Mbps forward link and
300 Mbps return
 40 Brigade Combat
Teams
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TRANSFORMING SECURE SATELLITE
COMMUNICATIONS
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In essence we are working
to provide:
• Wireless Multi-media High
Capacity Access Points
Voice
Streaming Video
High-Resolution Imagery
Tactical Operations Center
Backhaul
» Forward Team Backhaul
» ISR Data
Access Broadband Applications Without Bandwidth Constraint
The Future with ViaSat-1 and
Beyond
 Literally millions of broadband satellite
subscribers in US, Europe & globally
 Leveraged for the government markets just like
most things ViaSat has done in the past
 Secure for all Applications
 Voice, Video, Client/Server data
 All you can eat
 Bandwidth changes from scarce to plentiful, from
expensive to affordable
 Any time, any where
 Now that sounds like the GIG