RTT - provide RF and optical engineering support to the 5G and satellite industry..
We provide RF and optical engineering consultancy to operators and vendors, helping them to make faster and better decisions on radio frequency (RF) and optical (fibre) and free space (FSO) infrastructure investment and help 5G and satellite supply chains identify emerging risks and opportunities.
The auction of 100 MHz of C band spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for $80 billion dollars in the US earlier this year has helped to drive global investment in a new wave of high capacity terrestrial cellular networks. In the 5G community we think of these as radio systems but in practice these networks are dependent on the efficient integration of RF and optical transport at optical C band (191 THz to 195 THz).
In parallel for $8 billion dollars a satellite operator can have a LEO constellation with several thousand satellites covering all latitudes and longitudes with multiple payloads including GNSS, multi spectral sub metre imaging and global Wi-Fi. Increasingly these networks are deploying inter satellite and inter constellation optical switching and optical uplinks and downlinks to provide cost effective power efficient bandwidth and added value to terrestrial networks.
These are not new technologies. The industry has been deploying terrestrial fibre now for fifty years and RF over fibre for thirty years and today’s high count LEO constellations are a second iteration of Ku and Ka band networks planned thirty years ago (Skybridge and Teledesic).
Over the past fifty years, losses per kilometre in terrestrial fibre have reduced from 20 dB per kilometre to 0.2 dB per kilometre. In space, 60,000 kilometre links are being deployed at low power and low cost transforming the delivery economics of long distance broadband backhaul. Ever higher levels of coherent modulation make these links ever more efficient.
RTT bridges the gap between RF and optical terrestrial and space engineering and provides guidance on how the integration of RF and optical technology can change the economics of present and future terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
Contact geoff@rttonline.com or phone 00 44 7710 020 040 to discuss how RTT can help create future profit opportunity.
If you have specific interest in South East Asian technology and market trends and would like information on our bespoke research and in house virtual or on site/off site facilitation workshops contact daniel@nichemarketsasia.com.
5G and Satellite RF and Optical Integration
We are delighted to announce that our new book; 5G and Satellite RF and Optical Integration,
is now available to order for immediate shipment.
The book has eleven Chapters packed with useful information.
Chapter 1 covers 5G radio spectrum including RF C Band, RF link budgets and active and passive device efficiency.
Topics addressed in the rest of the book include:
Chapter 2 Optical C Band link budgets and active and passive device efficiency
Chapter 3 RF over Fiber- link budgets and network architectures
Chapter 4 Space RF Link Budgets
Chapter 5 Optical Inter Satellite Links (OISL)
Chapter 6 Deep Space and Near Space technologies
Chapter 7 Ground Station and Earth Station Hardware and Software
Chapter 8 Low Altitude Platforms
Chapter 9 High Altitude Platforms
Chapter 10 RF and Optical Technology Enablers
Chapter 11 Technology Economics of RF and Fibre for terrestrial and space networks.
For more information and to order go to
https://uk.artechhouse.com/5G-and-Satellite-RF-and-Optical-Integration-P2194.aspx
Copies of the two previous books in the Series can be ordered here
https://uk.artechhouse.com/5G-and-Satellite-Spectrum-Standards-and-Scale-P1935.aspx
https://uk.artechhouse.com/5G-Spectrum-and-Standards-P1805.aspx
If you are interested in writing a book for Artech House or have research work you would like included in future 5G and 6G and satellite titles then email geoff@rttonline.com who can put you in touch with the Artech commissioning team.
Our next LEO, MEO and GSO workshop presented in association with the Continuing Education Institute will be held in Gothenburg from 10th to 14th June 2024
www.cei.se/course-820-leo-meo-and-gso-system-and-service-integration-group.html
RTT Technology Topics
RTT Technology Topics reflect areas of research that we are presently working on.
We aim to introduce new terminology and new ideas to help inform present and future
technology, engineering,
market and business decisions.
This month’s (December 2023) technology topic, Space Politics looks optimistically at a future space economy that delivers something broader than short term strategic advantage
On the RTT website there are over 280 topics ARCHIVED starting from August 1998. The archive provides a free valuable resource for researchers in the industry wishing to use past case study experience to validate technology, engineering, market and business decisions.
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