I am always incredibly excited on any trip to the US, by the sheer size of the market, the innovation and technology disruption underway, and the global vision and scale of production at organisations blazing trails in the technology industry.

I mean who wakes up in the morning, thinks about life on another planet, then sets about building a company to disrupt space travel?

Oh, and at the same time, manages to create ubiquitous global communications. That’s what you get from visiting the campuses of truly bleeding-edge organisations such as SpaceX, Starlink, and Amazon Kuiper, as well as a trip to Boeing’s Future of Flight Aviation Centre. You very quickly realise the new-yet-old-school benefits of scale in production, just in time manufacturing, and logistics at a global scale.

A challenge at the heart of this revolution, and one where Vocus is playing a role, is the step change in the size, scale, and performance of the infrastructure to enable and support it. Forward projections for growth in data, data centres, compute power and global bandwidth are mind blowing, which makes it exciting and confronting in equal measures to be a leading provider in our corner of the world.

Listening to the team at Amazon Kuiper, who recently launched their first two LEO satellites and have plans for thousands more to come, as well as the team at Starlink who are adding to the thousands they’ve already deployed, we will soon have large numbers of small but incredibly powerful satellites circling above us at less than 3000km.

All of this innovation and development requires scaled ground-based fibre network infrastructure to enable the exceptional metro-grade connectivity that LEO satellite technology can deliver.