Alliance Will Bring OuterNET to the Philippines
Alliance Will Bring OuterNET to the Philippines
Rivada Joins Forces with NOW Corp
A unique, next-generation connectivity network for the Philippines will be developed under an alliance formed between Rivada Space and Philippine communications company NOW Corporation.
"The OuterNET allows satellites to go beyond their traditional role of 'gap-filler.'"
Declan Ganley, Rivada Space Networks
An increasing demand to move large quantities of data securely and quickly around the world is fast outpacing current infrastructure. Terrestrial and legacy satellite networks in particular are clearly suboptimal for business communications in terms of speed, security and latency.
To upgrade the infrastructure, NOW Corporation will harness the OuterNET while Rivada's seamless connectivity ramps up performance, improves security, and increases customer efficiency. Rivada's technology will provide resiliency for high quality voice, video and data solutions to enterprises that require secure infrastructure, such as banking and financial services, mining and transportation.
Rivada's OuterNET is also particularly well suited for the low latency and secure connectivity required by national and local government and defense sectors and will play a key role in NOW Corp's goal of providing trusted connectivity to critical infrastructure projects in the Philippines.
NOW Telecom, NOW Corp's associate and telecom arm, recently secured a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency for the development of reliable and secure nationwide 5G mobile and broadband networks in the Philippines.
Rivada's constellation of 600 low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the "OuterNET," is a unique next-generation architecture combing inter-satellite laser links with advanced onboard processing that provide unique routing and switching capabilities to create an optical mesh network in space. This approach to "orbital networking," in which data stays in space from origin to destination, creates an ultra-secure satellite network with pole-to-pole coverage, offering end-to-end latencies much lower than terrestrial fiber over similar long distances. And by routing traffic on a physically separated network, it provides a layer of defense for any organization that needs to securely share data between widely distributed sites.
"We welcome Rivada as one of the satellite partners that NOW has forged an alliance with. As we aim to link and to secure critical infrastructures in the Philippines, we aim to provide the most reliable and secure connectivity to our intended market," said NOW Corp President and CEO, Henry Andrews Abes. "Rivada's OuterNET will revolutionize how telecom services are provided to government agencies and companies employing mission-critical and security-sensitive applications and services across the 7,600 islands of the Philippines. We look forward to working with Rivada alongside other trusted partners."
"The OuterNET allows satellites to go beyond their traditional role of 'gap-filler.' The OuterNET is a fully interconnected space network, which is rapidly becoming the infrastructure of choice for secure data communications," said Declan Ganley, CEO, Rivada Space Networks.
Rivada's OuterNET will solve essential connectivity and networking challenges and open up new opportunities for business communications globally. The first satellite launch is set for 2025, with global service starting in 2026.