Content Delivery System Key to Using 1675-1680 MHz Band for 5G, Ligado Says
Ligado told the FCC Friday a content delivery system is a cheaper, more efficient way to deliver NOAA data to universities and companies like AccuWeather that monitor data from weather satellites. In May, commissioners approved 5-0 an NPRM proposing to…
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reallocate the 1675-1680 MHz band for 5G (see 1905020061). “Non-Government users currently obtain the data via their own Earth stations,” Ligado said, posted Friday in docket 19-116. “This is an expensive, complicated, and exclusionary means of obtaining the data, one that takes at least 11 months and costs over one hundred thousand dollars to set up.” A CDS is much more efficient, the satellite firm said: A prototype CDS is providing NOAA data to George Mason University and the University of Oklahoma. “The public interest benefits of a CDS are clear: it could increase by orders of magnitude the number of users that have access to the NOAA data without any sacrifice in reliability or latency,” Ligado said. “NOAA itself has developed similar CDSs as part of its Big Data Project.” AccuWeather didn’t comment. Ligado sees itself as offering the fastest path available for getting more mid-band spectrum in play for 5G (see 1906050062).