SATELLITE INTERNET CONSTELLATION CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK AND DATA CENTER
Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications. For example, a system can include a plurality of satellite dishes provided about a first location and configured for communication with a satellite internet constellation. Each respective satellite dish can be communicatively interconnected with one or more satellite dishes of the plurality of satellite dishes. The system can include a user equipment (UE) communicatively coupled to an adjacent satellite dish of the plurality of satellite dishes. Data traffic of the UE can be routed from the adjacent satellite dish to a selected satellite dish of the plurality of satellite dishes. The data traffic of the UE can be transmitted to the satellite internet constellation using the selected satellite dish. The data traffic of the UE can be routed to an internet gateway using one or more inter-satellite links (ISLs) between respective pairs of satellites of the satellite internet constellation.
1 . A system for wireless communications, the system comprising:
a plurality of satellite dishes provided about a first location and configured for communication with a satellite internet constellation, wherein each respective satellite dish is communicatively interconnected with one or more satellite dishes of the plurality of satellite dishes; and
a user equipment (UE) communicatively coupled to an adjacent satellite dish of the plurality of satellite dishes, wherein:
data traffic of the UE is routed from the adjacent satellite dish to a selected satellite dish of the plurality of satellite dishes;
the data traffic of the UE is transmitted to the satellite internet constellation using the selected satellite dish; and
the data traffic of the UE is routed to an internet gateway using one or more inter-satellite links (ISLs) between respective pairs of satellites of the satellite internet constellation.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the adjacent satellite dish transmits the data traffic of the UE to the selected satellite dish using one or more hops between intermediate satellite dishes of the plurality of satellite dishes.
3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the intermediate satellite dishes are selected from a group of interconnected satellite dishes provided between the adjacent satellite dish and the selected satellite dish.
4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:
a location of the adjacent satellite dish is different from a location of the selected satellite dish; and
a subset of satellites of the satellite internet constellation available to the adjacent satellite dish is different from a subset of satellites of the satellite internet constellation available to the selected satellite dish.
5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the selected satellite dish transmits the data traffic of the UE to a particular satellite of the satellite internet constellation, and wherein the particular satellite is beyond a communication range of the adjacent satellite dish.
6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the plurality of satellite dishes are arranged in two or more concentric layers disposed beyond a perimeter of the first location, each layer including a subset of the plurality of satellite dishes.
7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein:
the adjacent satellite dish is included in an inner layer of the two or more concentric layers; and
the selected satellite dish is included in a layer different from the inner layer.
8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein:
the two or more concentric layers include at least an inner layer and an outer layer; and
at least one satellite dish included in the inner layer is communicatively coupled to at least one satellite dish included in the outer layer.
9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the selected satellite dish is selected based on a latency or round trip time (RTT) associated with an available path between the selected satellite dish and the internet gateway.
10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the selected satellite dish is selected based on having a lowest latency to the internet gateway.
11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the internet gateway is selected from a plurality of internet gateways associated with the satellite internet constellation, based on the internet gateway having a lowest latency or closest proximity to a content server associated with the data traffic of the UE.
12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the internet gateway comprises a server-side proxy or a datacenter of a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein:
the selected satellite dish is selected based on identifying a routing path from the selected satellite dish to a satellite of the satellite internet constellation having a lowest latency or round trip time (RTT) to the server-side proxy or datacenter of the CDN.
14 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the data traffic of the UE is transmitted by the selected satellite dish to an ingress satellite of the satellite internet constellation; and
the data traffic of the UE is transmitted from an egress satellite of the satellite internet constellation to the internet gateway.
15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the one or more ISL links are provided between the ingress satellite and the egress satellite.
16 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the selected satellite dish is selected based at least in part on a communication link being available between the selected satellite dish and the ingress satellite, and wherein a communication link between the adjacent satellite dish and the ingress satellite is unavailable.
17 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second plurality of satellite dishes provided about a second location and configured for communication with the satellite internet constellation, wherein each respective satellite dish is communicatively interconnected with one or more satellite dishes of the second plurality of satellite dishes.
18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein:
the second location is a location of a server-side proxy or a datacenter of a Content Delivery Network (CDN); and
data traffic addressed to the UE is routed through the second plurality of satellite dishes to a second selected satellite dish configured to transmit, to the satellite internet constellation, the data traffic addressed to the UE.
19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the data traffic addressed to the UE is further routed from an ingress satellite of the satellite internet constellation to an egress satellite of the satellite internet constellation, using one more ISLs between a corresponding one or more pairs of satellites of the satellite internet constellation.
20 . The system of claim 19 , wherein:
the egress satellite transmits the data traffic addressed to the UE to the selected satellite dish of the plurality of satellite dishes; and
the data traffic addressed to the UE is forwarded from the selected satellite dish to the UE via one or more intermediate satellite dishes.