Aalyria

"Together, we are building the interoperable architecture to support the Pentagon's needs - one network, every orbit, zero compromise." Our partnership with Aalyria delivers an autonomous SATCOM mesh that operates across every orbit and terrestrial system. Spacetime's predictive modelling combines with Hydra's multi-link capability to ensure continuous connectivity - even as platforms move, networks degrade or adversaries attack. Discover how we're advancing secure, resilient communications in defense 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eSvqbK93 John-Paul Szczepanik Via Satellite #DefenseTech #SATCOM #HYDRA

Space-based data centers are no longer a thought experiment. Huge congratulations to our friends at Google on Project Suncatcher — a serious, systems-first exploration of on-orbit compute. 👏 Let me break down the requirements of deploying such a system and how I think Aalyria can be a valuable asset in making it happen. How much ground ↔︎ space I/O will an orbital cluster need? Recent measurements from Sandvine’s put total global Internet traffic at roughly 33 exabytes per day, with a small set of hyperscaler platforms (including Google/YouTube, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft) together accounting for around half of that volume. Spreading this multi-exabyte load across on the order of a hundred-plus Google-scale facilities implies that a single modern data center is engineered for multi-terabit-per-second external ingress+egress— with tens of petabytes per day moving in and out of the facility. In Project Suncatcher, Bloom et al. describe an 81-satellite TPU cluster whose performance is “roughly comparable to a terrestrial datacenter,” linked to Earth via optical ISLs and dedicated feeder links to ground; so, if we assume external I/O scales with compute, a conservative estimate is that each Suncatcher-class on-orbit cluster would require on the order of ~1–5 Tb/s of aggregate Earth–space feeder-link capacity. Where Aalyria fits: Tightbeam (optical ground terminals): designed to make those feeder links possible. Our early units support 100-400Gbps full duplex per terminal (range & conditions dependent) at 1550 nm. You would deploy several per site — and across multiple sites, for weather/site diversity. That’s how you support Tbps-class clusters on the feeder-link side. Spacetime (temporospatial SDN): once you run optical feeder links through air, weather will impact the network. Spacetime proactively retasks steerable terminals — on the ground and in space. So if Spacetime forecasts clouds obscuring one site, we’ll pre-switch to a clear site and reconcile the on-orbit inter-satellite link graph, because a different ground look angle often means a different/adjacent satellite should carry the hop. Spacetime is built to optimize the link topology, spectrum resource allocation, and path computation across L1/L2/L3 concurrently, anticipating fades and evolving paths in sub-second timeframes (we’ve demonstrated sending updates to reconstitute a new topology after a satellite failure in less than 200 ms). This is the control plane you need when the physical fabric itself is dynamic. 💡Put simply: If Suncatcher makes the compute and power story compelling, Tightbeam and Spacetime can make the networking story real. Early systems can start with a few hundred Gbps of optical feeder capacity and scale out to multi-site, multi-terabit aggregates — while Spacetime keeps the whole thing stitched together as weather and orbital geometry evolve. https://lnkd.in/et2pnNei

Space-based data centers are no longer a thought experiment. Huge congratulations to our friends at Google on Project Suncatcher — a serious, systems-first exploration of on-orbit compute. 👏 Let me break down the requirements of deploying such a system and how I think Aalyria can be a valuable asset in making it happen. How much ground ↔︎ space I/O will an orbital cluster need? Recent measurements from Sandvine’s put total global Internet traffic at roughly 33 exabytes per day, with a small set of hyperscaler platforms (including Google/YouTube, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft) together accounting for around half of that volume. Spreading this multi-exabyte load across on the order of a hundred-plus Google-scale facilities implies that a single modern data center is engineered for multi-terabit-per-second external ingress+egress— with tens of petabytes per day moving in and out of the facility. In Project Suncatcher, Bloom et al. describe an 81-satellite TPU cluster whose performance is “roughly comparable to a terrestrial datacenter,” linked to Earth via optical ISLs and dedicated feeder links to ground; so, if we assume external I/O scales with compute, a conservative estimate is that each Suncatcher-class on-orbit cluster would require on the order of ~1–5 Tb/s of aggregate Earth–space feeder-link capacity. Where Aalyria fits: Tightbeam (optical ground terminals): designed to make those feeder links possible. Our early units support 100-400Gbps full duplex per terminal (range & conditions dependent) at 1550 nm. You would deploy several per site — and across multiple sites, for weather/site diversity. That’s how you support Tbps-class clusters on the feeder-link side. Spacetime (temporospatial SDN): once you run optical feeder links through air, weather will impact the network. Spacetime proactively retasks steerable terminals — on the ground and in space. So if Spacetime forecasts clouds obscuring one site, we’ll pre-switch to a clear site and reconcile the on-orbit inter-satellite link graph, because a different ground look angle often means a different/adjacent satellite should carry the hop. Spacetime is built to optimize the link topology, spectrum resource allocation, and path computation across L1/L2/L3 concurrently, anticipating fades and evolving paths in sub-second timeframes (we’ve demonstrated sending updates to reconstitute a new topology after a satellite failure in less than 200 ms). This is the control plane you need when the physical fabric itself is dynamic. 💡Put simply: If Suncatcher makes the compute and power story compelling, Tightbeam and Spacetime can make the networking story real. Early systems can start with a few hundred Gbps of optical feeder capacity and scale out to multi-site, multi-terabit aggregates — while Spacetime keeps the whole thing stitched together as weather and orbital geometry evolve. https://lnkd.in/et2pnNei

J2 Ventures is built for the best of what veterans can create. That's why we chose today to announce our new $250M dual use fund, "Brookhaven". I had the privilege of discussing the fund on CNBC this morning, and we are grateful to the The Wall Street Journal for their continued in depth coverage of the firm we are building (in comments) We are honored to have closed this fund quickly, one and done, at our hard cap. From day one we have believed the best of all venture can be found in dual use technology and the results are saying this better than any narrative we could have come up with. It is wonderful to celebrate this alongside my co-founder Jonathan Bronson, and my partners Matt Goldman, Christine Keung as well as our team Adam Briley and Geoff Orazem and most importantly our amazing founders, without whom, none of this is possible. It is a privilege to do this job. Happy #veteransday https://lnkd.in/eAC4CNZ5

T-MINUS 8 DAYS until the Payload Space Investor Summit in Los Angeles at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 5th and 6th! Introducing "The Connectivity Panel" featuring: – John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis Space Technologies – Chris Taylor, CEO of Aalyria – Shey Sabripour, CEO of CesiumAstro Moderated by: Morgan Beller, General Partner at NFX We're nearly sold out. Last minute applications 👇