Applying Virtualization Technology to Earth Station Systems
Hiroshi Uegaki, Kyohei Murakami, Satoshi Harauchi · SpaceOps 2014 Conference · 2014
Melco's earth station systems are operating on virtualization environment. Virtualization is technology to emulate the hardware platform and provides great advantages such as server consolidation, software isolation, and so forth. Furthermore, virtualization technology offers flexibility of installation, especially when the earth station system is reconfigured into the next stage of the satellite operation. Since this kind of reconfiguration happens repeatedly, this flexibility saves time and costs. This paper illustrates the advantages of applying virtualization technology to earth station systems based on our performance results in satellite house keeping and in-orbit testing terms.