HTS Operators Need to Design Payloads With Anchor Clients, NSR Says

With satcom increasingly dominated by high-throughput satellites (HTS), satellite operators need to be able to sell data capacity in bulk while still having some bargaining power and value-add, Northern Sky Research (NSR) analyst Blaine Curcio blogged Wednesday. NSR also said HTS payloads need to be designed with anchor clients in mind or, even better, with precommitted anchor clients that will help design the system.