[Starlink] Main hurdles against the Integration of Satellites and Terrestial Networks

[Alexandre Petrescu]

Le 30/08/2023 à 14:10, Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink a écrit :
> Here is a report which summarizes the outcome of the last Satellites 
> conference  
> [https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/39841-satellite-2023-summary-linking-up]
>
> The report highlights the two main hurdles against the integration of 
> satellites and terrestrial networks: standardization and business model.
>
> "/Most of the pushback against closer integration of terrestrial 
> wireless and satellite networks revolved around standardization. This 
> may just be growing pains and it likely reflects the relative 
> positions of wireless and satellite along the maturity curve, but some 
> of the speakers were arguing against standardization. The basis of 
> this argument was that the mobile industry only understands standards, 
> but the satellite industry is currently differentiating based on 
> custom systems and capabilities. The feeling was that the satellite 
> industry had focused on technology and not regulations or standards 
> and changing that course would not be helpful to the industry in the 
> short term. Timing is important in this analysis because almost 
> everyone agreed that at some point, standardization would be a good 
> thing, but the concern was the best way to get to the point in the 
> future. The other interesting argument against closer integration 
> between wireless and satellite had to do with the business model. 
> Several speakers questioned where the customers would go as 
> terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks become more integrated. The 
> underlying issues seemed to include who is responsible for solving 
> network issues and perhaps more importantly, who recognizes the 
> revenue. These issues seem, perhaps a bit simplistically, to be 
> similar to early wireless roaming issues. While these issues created 
> turbulence in the wireless market, they were solved and that is 
> probably a template to address these challenges for the wireless and 
> satellite operators."/
> /
> /
> Comments?


It is an interesting report.

For standardisation standpoint, it seems SDOs do push towards 
integration of 5G/6G and satcom; there are strong initiatives at least 
at 3GPP (NTN WI proposals) and IETF (TVR WG) in that direction.  But 
these are SDOs traditionally oriented to land communications, rather 
than space satcom.

I wonder whether space satcom traditional SDOs (which ones?) have 
initiated work towards integration with 5G/6G and other land-based Internet?

Alex

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