Verge is a new service that’s using a network of low-cost receivers combined with the computing and storage power of the cloud, allowing customers to downlink data without building an expensive ground network.

The key to lower cost is using commercial off-the-shelf components for the bulk of each Verge antenna. That makes it less expensive to scale up the number of antennas in a distributed network. All Verge antennas need is a fiber connection to the cloud.

Key features:

• Multiple access: spectrum efficiency through RF frequency re-use and multiple concurrent access
• Dual-use: Private-Public Partnership, cyber-hardened, and discrete form factor
• Resilience: quantity of receivers and geographic distribution of antennas mean no single point of failure, more up-time and higher reliability