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Defence

Defence

Increase your operational advantage in the digital battlespace

In today’s congested, contested, and competitive space environment, low-latency, high-throughput LEO satellites are fundamental to your digital battlespace strategy.

Telesat Lightspeed is the only global LEO satellite network that meets your unique requirements for cybersecurity, service control, and network resilience

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Rely on mission-critical LEO satellite services

Telesat Lightspeed is engineered to help you achieve superiority in space.
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Security

Zero-Trust Architecture and cybersecurity that aligns with key government and industry standards.

Security
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Resilience

Optical links between satellites and redundant ground infrastructure ensure network availability is not impaired if there’s an attack.

Resilience
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Advanced evasion technologies

Narrow, steerable beams and extremely fast DVB-S2X beam and frequency hopping within Ka-band make communications extremely difficult to intercept, decipher, and jam.

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Guaranteed performance

Multi-domain networking across land, sea, and air with guaranteed network availability, data rates, latency, jitter, packet loss, and more.

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Government-controlled encryption

Support for government-owned key management systems and approved cryptographic material outside of the satellite network.

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Fully interoperable

MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet certification simplifies integration with existing and future terrestrial telecom networks and military systems.

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High uplink bandwidth

Ka-band spectrum delivers the uplink bandwidth required to support Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications.

Control all aspects of SATCOM service delivery

You maintain complete control and visibility of services to every fixed site and mobile platform.
  • Allocate capacity: Assign LEO network capacity to each user group and redistribute it to meet new and unexpected requirements.
  • Define traffic priorities: Define different transmission priorities for real-time, critical, and non-critical traffic to support each mission.
  • Use public and private ground infrastructure: Land data at any combination of commercial facilities and defence-owned ground infrastructure.
  • Create a private defence network: Create a fully secure, private LEO network that covers any region globally with no need to build, purchase, or operate satellites.
  • Use existing SATCOM terminals: Terminal manufacturers such as ALL.SPACE and AvL Technologies are already working to certify their terminals on the Telesat Lightspeed network.

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