TL-01
Internet
Reach into the global network through several IP transits and Spanish exchange points.
LA-TLPSatellite teleport
Where Earth talks to the constellation.
The Benavides de Órbigo teleport is the nerve centre of the network: every byte going up to or down from our satellites passes through this site.
OperationalBenavides de Órbigo · León
LA-TLP-01 · Concept
What is a satellite teleport?
It is where the terrestrial and space networks meet. Everything a satellite sends comes down here, and everything a user asks for goes up from here.
TL-02
Fibre backbone
Redundant optical fibre ring linking the teleport to the data centres.
TL-03
Data centre
Technical rooms hosting processing, storage and backup for the whole platform.
TL-04
Teleport
The junction between terrestrial infrastructure and the constellation in orbit.
TL-05
Satellites
LA-Cover, LA-Xylon and LA-Onyx platforms, with their communications payloads.
TL-06
End users
Homes across north-west Spain connected through their satellite terminal.
TL-07
Business
Corporate sites and public bodies with committed bandwidth and service agreements.
TL-08
5G NTN networks
5G core and non-terrestrial network functions serving the terminal directly.
LA-TLP-02 · Infrastructure
What sits inside the site.
Twelve systems running continuously: from the antenna field to the cooling that keeps the technical room inside its thermal window.
IF-01
Antenna field
Ka- and Ku-band tracking dishes, pointed at different orbital planes.
IF-02
Ground Stations
Earth stations that open and close the contact windows with each satellite.
IF-03
Mission Control
Operations centre that issues telecommands and verifies the health of the fleet.
IF-04
Data centre
Technical room with hot/cold aisles, dual power feed and continuous monitoring.
IF-05
RF equipment
The full radio-frequency chain between the dish and the link baseband.
IF-06
Satellite modems
Adaptive DVB-S2X modulation, matching the carrier to real link conditions.
IF-07
HPA amplifiers
Power amplifiers that raise the carrier before the uplink.
IF-08
LNA amplifiers
Low-noise amplifiers that recover the downlink signal without degrading it.
IF-09
Routers and switches
Switching and routing of traffic between baseband and the fibre backbone.
IF-10
Cloud platform
Management, analytics and customer portal services on private cloud.
IF-11
Redundant power
Dual feed, UPS and generator to sustain operations off-grid.
IF-12
Climate control
Redundant cooling that keeps the technical room inside its thermal window.
LA-TLP-04 · Operations
Real-time operations.
The state of the teleport at a glance. These are reference figures for nominal operation, not a live feed.
Active links
0
Satellites connected
0
Aggregate traffic
0.0Gbps
Spare bandwidth
0%
Average latency
0ms
Backbone
0%
Active uplinks
0
Active downlinks
0
Users connected
0
Coverage available
0.0%
Network availability
0.00%
Ground Stations
0
LA-TLP-05 · Radio frequency
The radio-frequency chain.
Ten pieces of equipment stand between the dish and the bit. Each has one job and a state that is monitored continuously.
RF-01
HPA
High-power amplifier for the Ka-band uplink.
Nominal
RF-02
LNA
Low-noise amplifier at the front of the receive chain.
Nominal
RF-03
Up converters
Translation from intermediate frequency to the satellite uplink band.
Nominal
RF-04
Down converters
Translation from the downlink band to intermediate frequency for the modem.
Nominal
RF-05
Modems
DVB-S2X modulation and demodulation with adaptive coding.
Nominal
RF-06
Multiplexers
Aggregation of carriers onto a single radio-frequency chain.
Nominal
RF-07
Demultiplexers
Separation of received carriers towards their matching modems.
Nominal
RF-08
GPS equipment
Position and timing reference for antenna pointing.
Nominal
RF-09
Synchronisation
Reference clock distributed across the whole baseband chain.
Nominal
RF-10
Spectrum analysers
Continuous spectrum monitoring to detect interference.
Watch
LA-TLP-06 · Security
Protecting the teleport.
Twelve controls covering the digital perimeter, physical access to the site and service continuity in the event of a failure.
SG-01
NGFW firewalls
Next-generation filtering at the perimeter and between internal segments.
Active
SG-02
IDS / IPS
Detection and blocking of intrusion patterns across teleport traffic.
Active
SG-03
SIEM
Centralised correlation of events from the whole infrastructure.
Active
SG-04
SOAR
Response automation through verified playbooks.
Active
SG-05
IAM
Identity management with two-factor authentication and least privilege.
Active
SG-06
Access control
Physical access restricted by zone to technical rooms and the antenna field.
Active
SG-07
CCTV
Perimeter video surveillance with continuous recording of the site.
Active
SG-08
RF monitoring
Spectrum monitoring against interference and unauthorised emissions.
Watch
SG-09
DDoS protection
Denial-of-service mitigation before traffic reaches the backbone.
Active
SG-10
Power redundancy
Dual feed, UPS and generator with periodic load testing.
Active
SG-11
Backup
Encrypted copies with tiered retention and restore verification.
Active
SG-12
Disaster recovery
Continuity plan with an alternate site and defined recovery objectives.
Tested
LA-TLP-07 · Integration
Watched by the Satellite SOC.
The teleport does not monitor itself. It feeds its telemetry to the security operations centre, which correlates it with the rest of the constellation.
The teleport reports
- Antennas
- RF equipment
- Data centre
- Ground Stations
- Mission Control
- Satellites
The SOC analyses
- Telemetry
- Logs
- Events
- Traffic
- Alerts
- Performance
- Incidents
LA-TLP-08 · Case study
One connection, end to end.
The full sequence of a real request, with each node lighting up as it is reached.
A rural home in the north-west requests satellite 5G connectivity.
Simulation running- 01
The request leaves
A rural home in the north-west asks for a connection: its dish transmits to the satellite in view.
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The satellite receives
The LEO platform picks up the uplink and validates the terminal carrier.
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Relayed to the ground
The satellite routes the traffic to the Benavides de Órbigo teleport.
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The teleport processes
The dish recovers the signal, the modem demodulates it and hands it to the IP network.
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Data centre
Traffic crosses the fibre backbone and is routed inside the technical room.
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Out to the Internet
The request reaches the transit provider and arrives at its destination on the global network.
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The response returns
The response retraces the path: data centre, teleport, satellite and terminal.
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User connected
The session is established at nominal latency, with no groundworks and no cabling.
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