 Sky Station's platforms are ideally suited to
delivering telecommunications services.Located
in the stratosphere 21Km above the earth, each platform acts as the highest tower in town,
providing high density, high capacity, high speed service with low power requirements and
no latency to an entire metropolitan and suburban area extending out into rural areas. No
other existing or proposed technology offers this combination of high density service and
low cost.
Subscribers transmit directly to the platform, where on board
switching routes traffic directly to other Sky Station subscribers within the same
platform coverage area. Traffic destined for subscribers outside the platform coverage
area is routed through ground stations to the public networks or to other platforms
serving nearby cities.
A Big Pipe
into Every Home
Today's telecommunications networks have become stressed by the explosive growth of
the Internet. As more users tie up lines for longer periods of time, the usage patterns
for which the networks were originally designed have been fundamentally altered. Consumers
have become increasingly dissatisfied with the slow speed of dial-up access and are
demanding higher speed solutions. Sky Station satisfies this demand by delivering personal
T1/E1 broadband service to the mass market at a lower cost than existing or announced
alternatives.
With data rates bursting to 2Mbps uplink and 120Mbps
downlink, subscribers enjoy high speed Internet browsing and hosting, as well as other
broadband services such as video conferencing.
Spectrum in the 47GHz band has already been designated
globally by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as well as the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) for use by high-altitude stratospheric platforms, paving
the way for planned commercial service to commence in the year 2000.
Telephony for the Developing World
All developing nations need low cost access to high density telecommunications
links to support accelerated economic development and inclusion in the Information
Revolution. Sky Station's stratospheric platforms provide the fastest, easiest and least
expensive way to bring advanced services to the developing world. One Sky Station platform
alone provides telephone service for millions of subscribers at a lower cost than any
current or proposed system.
Mobile
Solutions
The ability to communication anywhere, anytime is an integral part of today's
global culture. A worldwide standard (IMT-2000) is evolving for a broadband service for
mobile, portable and fixed users. The STS system is the ideal means for low-cost rapid
deployment of mobile services and Sky Station is participating in the development and
delivery of third generation cellular service.
The Sky Station Advantage
There are several unique attributes that allow Sky Station to offer a
broad array of services with low operating costs:
- Sky Station platforms do not require a launch vehicle, they
can move under their own power throughout the world or remain stationary, and they can be
brought down to earth, refurbished and re-deployed.
- Once a platform is in position, it can immediately begin
delivering service to its service area without the need to deploy a global infrastructure
or constellation of platforms to operate.
- The altitude enables the Sky Station system to provide a
higher frequency reuse and thus higher capacity than other wireless systems.
- The low cost of the platform and gateway stations make it the
cheapest wireless infrastructure per subscriber conceived to date.
- Joint venture companies and government authorities located in
each country will control the Sky Station platforms serving their region to ensure the
best service offerings tailored to the local market. Offerings can change as a region
develops.
- Each platform can be retrieved, updated, and re-launched
without service interruption.
- Sky Station platforms are environmentally friendly. They are
powered by solar technology and non-polluting fuel cells.
- The 21Km altitude provides subscribers with short paths
through the atmosphere and unobstructed line-of-sight to the platform.
- With small antennas and low power requirements, the Sky
Station system allows for a wide variety of fixed and portable user terminals to meet
almost any service need.
The capabilities and low cost of the Sky Station system will
revolutionize telecommunications.
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