Orchestrator

Multi-orbit resource orchestration for GEO, MEO and LEO networks

Calian’s Orchestrator is an advanced multi-orbit resource orchestration platform designed to optimize and manage software-defined satellites and ground systems for satcom, Earth observation and defence applications.

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Calian Orchestrator: resource orchestration platform

Orchestrator is Calian’s resource orchestration platform that optimizes satellite network resources across multiple orbits and ground systems. It enables dynamic service delivery, maximizes the value of integrated ground and space assets, and reduces manual operations to improve performance, flexibility and monetization.

Maximize network capacity. Ensure resilient connectivity.

Resource orchestration empowers satellite operators with unparalleled flexibility, efficiency and service quality across GEO, LEO, MEO and hybrid networks.

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Orchestrator allows operators to dynamically reconfigure beam layouts, channels, carriers and power allocations automatically or manually with unmatched flexibility.

Using historical and forecasted traffic demand, operators can:

Target high-demand geographic regions
Optimize beam and channel plans
Rapidly respond to market shifts or unforeseen events
Maintain peak utilization across the network

The result: higher revenue potential and faster time-to-market for new services.

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Software-defined satellites can dynamically allocate resources where demand is highest. Orchestrator coordinates changes across payload and ground systems to ensure seamless execution.

Capabilities include:

Dynamic optimization of inter-satellite links (ISL)
Gateway visibility window management
User terminal and beam handover optimization
Adaptive power and spectrum management

By continuously optimizing resource allocations (beams, channels, gain, etc.), Orchestrator ensures consistent performance and an exceptional customer experience.

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Orchestrator provides actionable insights into network performance while automating deployment and configuration updates.

Advantages include:

Automated resource assignments and service allocations
Sophisticated orchestration with external systems
Minimization of user disruption during network changes
Simplified system management and reduced operational overhead

This frees operations teams to focus on performance optimization and strategic growth.

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LEO and MEO constellations demand continuous adaptation as satellites move and network conditions evolve.

Orchestrator includes:

Orbit prediction and pass scheduling with real-time ephemeris updates
Gateway visibility and capacity allocation
User terminal and beam handover optimization
ISL routing control for resilient multi-hop connectivity
Adaptive spectrum and power management

By continuously optimizing resources throughout each orbit, Orchestrator delivers resilient, high-performance service across moving constellations.

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Orchestrator extends beyond communications to support Earth observation, SAR, scientific and defence missions.

Its advanced task planning engine

Evaluates mission priorities and stakeholder requirements
Aligns satellite capabilities with ground station constraints
Performs orbit calculations to determine optimal contact opportunities
Arbitrates scheduling conflicts across missions
Enables dynamic pass planning and agile response to urgent commands

Orchestrator maximizes spacecraft value while maintaining mission agility.

Optimize satellite capacity and maximize service delivery

Calian’s next-generation satellite capacity management system (SCMS) delivers the latest advances in satellite communication payload and link propagation analysis techniques and modelling. The SCMS is an advanced software system used by satellite operators and satellite service providers for planning and managing the use of their satellite capacity.

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The SCMS models the complexity of today’s high-throughput satellite payloads including the detailed analysis of payload paths, filter responses, and transponder back-off and intermodulation noise impacts.

The SCMS is ideal for Ku- and Ka-band systems, supporting site diversity analysis, the latest ITU-R weather models and a sophisticated analysis of beam coverage, including interference between beams reusing frequency.

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Providing multiple planning modes, the system supports thousands of carriers on hundreds of channels and beams. The intuitive user interface organizes transponders and carriers into workspaces and provides easy-to-use interactive spectrum bar displays and detailed reports.

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Resource management solutions

Calian’s custom resource management solutions provide state-of-the-art software to meet the evolving needs of satellite communications. Focused on optimizing satellite payloads and constellations, particularly in the era of very high throughput satellites (VHTS), and software-defined satellites, our solutions allow satellite operators and service providers to maximize the values of their satellite networks.

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Global resource manager

Our global resource manager (GRM) is a real-time software system that dynamically manages the resources of a digital communications payload. Interfacing with the network and satellite ground control systems, the GRM selects, prioritizes and establishes communication channels on the satellite in response to traffic demand.

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Enhanced global resource manager

Our enhanced global resource manager (eGRM) manages the payload resources of high-throughput satellites. Supporting global coverage, including fixed and mobile terminal services, it was originally introduced to support the roll-out of Inmarsat’s Ka-band Global Xpress service, the world’s first global HTS network of satellites.

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Satellite load manager

Our satellite load manager (SLM) adds automated short-term resource management capabilities to global VSAT operations. It augments an existing VSAT platform to reduce, eliminate or prevent network congestion, helping to ensure terminals are operating within regional regulatory constraints, and ensuring terminals are assigned to satellites with unobstructed views and favourable skew angles.

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EarthMesh™

Calian’s EarthMesh platform empowers space agencies, satellite operators and terrestrial operators to model, analyze and optimize the use of communication links in multi-orbit, multi-constellation environments. This scalable platform is designed to address the complexities of the burgeoning growth of satellites in space.

EarthMesh is an elastic computational engine that models and analyzes extensive and dynamic networks of space- and ground-based assets over time and space. It empowers space agencies and satellite operators to plan and manage their missions and operations efficiently, optimizing RF and optical communications.

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Gateway and satellite switching

Calian’s smart gateway management solution optimizes gateway diversity and ensures continuous network capacity. It leverages automation to swiftly identify and respond to switchover events, guaranteeing uninterrupted service delivery.

Calian’s gateway and satellite switching solution is highly adaptable, allowing customization to align seamlessly with the specific operational requirements of satellite network operators.

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Adaptive radio resource control

Calian has demonstrated expertise in implementing adaptive radio resource control, a critical component in satellite communication networks. Our solutions facilitate real-time, intelligent control between satcom platforms and satellite payloads, ensuring optimal resource allocation to meet the dynamic demands of the network.

Adaptability and intelligence ensures that the satellite’s capacity is efficeintly utilized, enhancing overall network efficiency

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Interference management and mitigation

Calian offers state-of-the-art interference management solutions, designed to maximize spectrum usage by providing a comprehensive and intelligent approach to interference management. This solution goes beyond traditional interference monitoring, incorporating advanced modelling techniques to optimize frequency reuse, beam layouts and signal quality.

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Intelligent satellite fleet monitoring

Calian can provide an intelligent window into the health of your space asset. Integrated with your existing network or bundled with other Calian space offerings, this system operates continuously to identify anomalous signatures in satellite telemetry.

Machine learning (ML) models developed exclusively by Calian yield fast and accurate results. Client requirements are customized for various monitoring levels. The user interface makes configuring and operating intuitive and user-friendly.

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Satcom planning and analysis

Calian has a suite of planning tools and applications designed to help operators manage their satellite networks. These include applications for long-term capacity planning, sizing service based on customer requirements and beam coverage analysis.

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The capacity sizing tool (CST) helps satellite capacity planning and sales teams design and sell service plans based on aligning QoS needs with satellite performance characteristics across geographic regions. The CST determines achieved availability, data rate and a nominal MODCOD for a service plan across the operating geography by considering the satellite performance characteristics and propagation models for link impairments for six different operating scenarios.

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The capacity planning tool (CPT) tracks the available and used capacity of a satellite fleet. Designed to scale from one satellite to a global fleet, the system tracks—over time—payload configurations (channels/beams), potential and committed service for individual and group services, and network usage statistics. Services are represented by data rates, symbol rates, geoscopes and time frames, and are augmented by demand and congestion statistics obtained from the ground segment.

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Calian’s antenna coverage tool projects satellite antenna patterns onto 2D and 3D world maps to enable users to predict, visualize and analyze beam coverage. The tool leverages sophisticated algorithms to model the radio wave propagation and the impact of geographical features, such as buildings and terrain, on signal strength and quality. Engineers use this information to optimize antenna placements, orientations and settings to maximize coverage and minimize interference. Supports Satsoft.

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