  Startup CEO Lays Out Vision for Constellation of Cloud Data Centers - Via Satellite -: Cloud Constellation, a satellite industry startup, is designing a network of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) data centers for cloud service providers with needs for highly secure communications. "Scott Sobhani, CEO and co-founder of Cloud Constellation, told that the goal of the company is to create a worldwide cloud storage networking capability that does not rely on lease lines, Internet cable, or any other network to function. The constellation would serve enterprise and government customers needing to transport sensitive and mission-critical information that requires high levels of security. "Citing cybersecurity risks with common ground infrastructure, and a “pandemic crisis” level of surreptitious cyber theft and monitoring by hackers and other malefactors, Sobhani said Cloud Constellation felt creating its own system was the best way to ensure protected cloud data services. " 'We feel, at SpaceBelt, that human error will never leave. It will never disappear, so in order to address the needs of enterprises, we need to create an entire system that is uniquely and exclusively just for the enterprise, can protect the data, and supply a dedicated point-to-point and mesh network around the world,' he said. "Cloud Constellation started designing SpaceBelt about three years ago. Sobhani said the company sought not to 'overbuild' the project and instead focus on creating a simpler system that is more robust. The initial constellation is to feature eight data-center-type satellites that can grow modularly to scale with the evolution of cloud storage and computing technology. Sobhani said the spacecraft will use inter-satellite links to communicate with each other and eliminate the need for Points of Presence (PoPs) on the ground. " '[Our network] can actually cross-strap any Radio Frequencies (RF) that it sees into the SpaceBelt network without having to force that source to touch the ground or interconnect using Earth stations or hops to do that,' he explained. 'Our system has the ability to accept any RF signal, and allow it to uniquely or privately speak to any other RF signal that is also connected to the SpaceBelt. That allows for someone on one end of the world that might be operating in Ka-band to communicate with someone in C-band on the other side of the world.' Sobhani said Cloud Constellation terminals designed to work with the SpaceBelt would be located at the sites of enterprise or government customers, their receiving offices and remote sites, and would be able to communicate without any requirement to touch or communicate with the Internet, leased-lines or other infrastructure. The terminals will be certified to United States defense military standards for security. Read more on >> |