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"Parente goes on to say that SAS has a labin Poland where it has developed modulationtechnology that will allow any kind ofterrestrial protocols to be converted into theIP protocol that will be used by its network.“This process is very straightforward and wealready have several successes. It allows us tobe agnostic because we will have a converterbetween LoRa and IP, and Sigfox and IP, and soon. The converter is on the ground. The datapackets going up to the satellites will alreadybe IP and they are conveyed within the routersas IP and then converted back into the relevantprotocol for the end use.“All of our hardware usessoftware defined radio whichis again something that isvery unique. Our satellitesalso have the ability to changefrequencies based on location.That means that the samesatellites will transmit andreceive in one frequency overAfrica, and then in another overSouth America, and a thirdfrequency over Latin Americaor South East Asia. And theywould do that automaticallybased on location.“Also very importantly, wehave the ability to build adhoc communication networks.Let’s say you have (God forbid)a natural disaster somewherein the world within our servicearea that makes all the groundinfrastructure collapse. Thehomeland security servicescan connect to us and ask fora specific frequency, and oursatellite will adjust to cater totheir needs whenever they areabove these countries and thenthey will switch back. Buildingad hoc networks is somethingthat the space industry hasnever offered to customersas far as we know, and theability to automatically switchfrequencies is also somethingwhich is quite unique.”