The new model for software-defined ground systems
As satellite constellations scale to thousands of dynamic payloads and millions of interconnected services, traditional hardware-centric ground systems configured manually by teams of operators can no longer scale economically.
This whitepaper explores the transition to dynamic, software-defined ground architectures:
- Replace dedicated ground hardware with containerized Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
- Automate dynamic service chain design, spinning up and tearing down in seconds
- Scale operations across generic x86 compute in cloud, data center, and edge environments
- Synchronize ground systems with dynamic satellite payloads and multi-orbit missions