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    HALO Network Architecture

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    The HALO network architecture uses an aircraft flying in the stratosphere as a hub to provide wireless broadband internet connectivity to users on the ground via a star topology network. The aircraft carries an antenna array in a suspended pod that can transmit signals to end users in a single hop within the aircraft's coverage area. A gateway connected to long-distance fiber lines allows users to access content beyond the HALO network coverage and other networks to deliver content to users within the coverage area. The aircraft is designed to maintain connectivity even while rolling to counteract winds at its altitude.

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    The HALO network architecture uses an aircraft flying in the stratosphere as a hub to provide wireless broadband internet connectivity to users on the ground via a star topology network. The aircraft carries an antenna array in a suspended pod that can transmit signals to end users in a single hop within the aircraft's coverage area. A gateway connected to long-distance fiber lines allows users to access content beyond the HALO network coverage and other networks to deliver content to users within the coverage area. The aircraft is designed to maintain connectivity even while rolling to counteract winds at its altitude.

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    The HALO network architecture uses an aircraft flying in the stratosphere as a hub to provide wireless broadband internet connectivity to users on the ground via a star topology network. The aircraft carries an antenna array in a suspended pod that can transmit signals to end users in a single hop within the aircraft's coverage area. A gateway connected to long-distance fiber lines allows users to access content beyond the HALO network coverage and other networks to deliver content to users within the coverage area. The aircraft is designed to maintain connectivity even while rolling to counteract winds at its altitude.

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    The HALO network architecture uses an aircraft flying in the stratosphere as a hub to provide wireless broadband internet connectivity to users on the ground via a star topology network. The aircraft carries an antenna array in a suspended pod that can transmit signals to end users in a single hop within the aircraft's coverage area. A gateway connected to long-distance fiber lines allows users to access content beyond the HALO network coverage and other networks to deliver content to users within the coverage area. The aircraft is designed to maintain connectivity even while rolling to counteract winds at its altitude.

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    HALO Network Architecture

    At the apex of a wireless Cone of Commerce, the payload of the HALO aircraft serves as
    the hub of a star topology network for switching data packets between any two user
    terminals within the service footprint. A single hop with only two links is required, each
    link connecting the payload to an end user. The links are wireless, broadband and line of
    sight. Single link delays range from ~60 sec under the airplane to ~200 sec at the edge
    of the signal footprint. Information created outside the service footprint is delivered to an
    end user’s terminal through terminals operated by businesses, Internet Service Providers
    (ISPs), or content providers within that region, and through the HALO Gateway (HG)
    directly connected to distant metropolitan areas via leased trunks. With a packet switch
    onboard the airplane, only two air links are required for terminal-to-terminal
    communications via the node in the stratosphere. The HG is a portal serving the entire
    network. It allows system-wide access to content providers or advertisers, and it allows
    any end user to extend their communications beyond the HALO Network service area by
    connecting them to dedicated long-distance lines such as inter-metro optical fiber.
    High rainfall rates can reduce the effective data throughput of the link serving a given end
    user. Angel plans to ensure the maximum data rate more than 99.7% of the time. The link
    margin will be sufficient to provide an acceptable minimum data rate more than 99.9% of
    the time, and to limit outages to small areas (due to the interception of the signal path by
    very dense rain columns) to less than 0.1% of the time. Angel plans to locate the HG
    close to the HALO orbit center to reduce the slant range from its high-gain antenna to the
    aircraft and correspondingly its signal path length through heavy rainfall. The link margin
    requirements have been assessed and are thought to be achievable due to having high
    power available for the airborne segment of the network communications equipment.

    HALO Aircraft
    The HALO aircraft is being flight-tested in Mojave, California. The first flight was
    accomplished there in July 1998 and the flight envelope is being steadily expanded. The
    aircraft has been specially designed for the HALO Network and it can carry a large pod
    suspended from the underbelly of its fuselage. The pod containing the antenna array
    interfaces to the fuselage via a pylon through which power and coolant flow. If
    encountering a persistent wind at altitude, the aircraft will vary its roll angle as it attempts
    to maintain its station. Various antenna concepts allow the signal footprint to be
    maintained on the ground as the airplane rolls.
    The HALO aircraft fuselage contains the Airborne Switching Node ("ASN"), the primary coolant loop, and
    power conditioning. Packing switching and network management functions are performed by the ASN. The
    communications pod suspended beneath the aircraft fuselage contains the millimeter wave antenna array
    with amplifiers and transceivers. It converts millimeter waves to and from digital signals and is composed of
    an array of antennas that beam signals to subscribers and to the HG. Power and coolant flow between the
    platform and the payload through a pylon mount which, in turn, can maintain the payload pod level relative
    to the ground about the aircraft roll axis if required. A standard optical interface conveys digital
    communications data across the pylon interface that connects the ASN to the Mux/Demux circuitry in the
    Pod, which, in turn, impresses the modulated signal upon or extracts it from the millimeter wave carrier.

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