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Traffic Model

Traffic model tells us when and where to put the right amount of capacity to drive up system efficiency and drive down system cost.

As flights go in and out of beams, passenger count and Internet traffic rise and fall.  Traffic model quantifies the variations and the outputs feed the system design, from which reasonable cost estimates can be derived.

Estimated demand and RF power over:

Sample 3-hr period (minute-by-minute) in 4 beams over US for a single airline​

 Single Airline 
C258:  New York 
500 - 3200 Mbps
5 - 38 W
C174:  Chicago
400 - 2500 Mbps
4 - 32 W
C161:  Western Wyoming
0 - 700 Mbps
0 - 11 W
C508:  Houston
250-2600 Mbps
3 - 32 W
 Single Airline 

We can sum the data rate and RF power for the major airlines (Southwest, Delta, American, United, JetBlue, Alaska, Spirit, Frontier, Air Canada, WestJet) in a cell and calculate the maximum for each day over an arbitrary period (7-month period shown below).

 Aggregate Data Rate 
 Aggregate Power 
 Aggregate Flights 
 Aggregate Passengers 

For each day Figures above depict maximum instantaneous (in 4 beams):

Data rate

RF power

Passenger count

Flight count

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