{"id":57893,"date":"2021-03-15T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/omnispace-demonstrates-5g-satellite-service-for-us-military\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:41:54","slug":"omnispace-demonstrates-5g-satellite-service-for-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/omnispace-demonstrates-5g-satellite-service-for-us-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnispace Demonstrates 5G Satellite Service for US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.-based global hybrid network operator <strong>Omnispace<\/strong> successfully demonstrated the ability to use satellites to provide 5G services to the <strong>National Security Innovation Network <\/strong>(NSIN<strong>),<\/strong> the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. Marine Corps.<\/strong>, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Omnispace conducted its military 5G-via-satellite capability test in a <strong>LinQuest<\/strong> lab facility in Northern Virginia. The company said it was able to connect a number of commercial-off-the-shelf 5G devices with voice and data services via an emulated 5G radio access network (RAN) involving Omnispace\u2019s on-orbit satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The test was part of an agreement that Omnispace signed with the NSIN in 2020 to pilot its technology in connection with <strong>Verizon\u2019s<\/strong> new 5G \u201cLiving Lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omnispace is developing a global hybrid 5G communications network using S-band satellite spectrum for a range of enterprise and government customers. The network is based on 3GPP standards. <b>Thales Alenia Space <\/b>is currently building Omnispace\u2019s initial two satellites, which are scheduled to launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Omnispace CEO Ram Viswanathan recently sat down for an interview with <em>Via Satellite<\/em> to outline the company\u2019s long-term strategy and how it hopes to lead the satellite industry in the 5G era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c5G will be a critical technology for our military operations in the very near future, and those operations aren\u2019t limited to dense urban environments where most 5G infrastructure is being deployed. Truly global, mobile 5G connectivity in aero, maritime and remote areas will be essential across a broad spectrum of our government and military operations,\u201d Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brandon Newell said in a statement issued with test results. Newell is director of <strong>SoCal Tech Bridge<\/strong>, and <strong>Naval X<\/strong>, a driving force behind some of the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s 5G initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.-based global hybrid network operator Omnispace successfully demonstrated the ability to use satellites to provide 5G services to the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps., the company announced Monday. Omnispace conducted its military 5G-via-satellite capability test in a LinQuest lab facility in Northern Virginia. The company said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}