This white paper presents a new model for air-gapped connectivity. By integrating Cisco 8000 series secure routers running a modern SDN solution with Rivada's Outernet, organizations can establish a controlled electronic air gap. The white paper is being presented at the SATELLITE 2026 event in Washington, D.C.

Planning for business continuity has never been more important. Today, a network outage doesn’t just cause inconvenience—it halts production, severs access to systems, and breaks continuity. And as dependence on cloud-based tools and remote access intensifies, the cost of downtime keeps climbing.

The digital landscape is under siege. Cybercrime is no longer a technical nuisance—it's a strategic threat. With global damages projected to reach $10.5 trillion USD by 2025, cyberattacks now represent what some call the largest transfer of wealth in human history. If cybercrime were an economy, it would rank third after the U.S. and China. This shift elevates digital infrastructure from a technical asset to a pillar of national security and economic resilience.

The global telecommunications infrastructure we rely on today was built and optimized to deliver the Internet—now essential to modern social and business life. But networks designed for maximum reach and cost efficiency are not always the best fit for secure, mission-critical operations. A foundational shift is required: a network built from the ground up for secure, deterministic, and sovereign operations.

The digital world is under siege. Hackers, organized crime, and rogue nation-states relentlessly probe for vulnerabilities, exploiting any weakness to compromise sensitive data. If the best-prepared and best-equipped organizations in the world can fall prey to these attacks, how can others hope to defend themselves using the same vulnerable infrastructure?

The polar regions, once remote frontiers, are now arenas of intense strategic, economic, and scientific activity. As climate change opens new sea lanes and uncovers resources, maritime and aviation traffic is surging. The High North is facing a connectivity paradox: as the need for data grows exponentially, the available solutions remain a patchwork of high-latency, low-bandwidth, and jurisdictionally compromised options.  

To date, satellite networks have been perceived as a last choice for network connectivity only when terrestrial connectivity is not available. Now, a truly unique LEO satellite network architecture, the Outernet will provide opportunities for telecom operators which will give them access to previously unavailable levels of secure network performance combined with worldwide reach.

Continuing subsea cable attacks further highlight the need for data sovereignty and data resiliency. Rivada’s Outernet provides a robust solution for enterprises and governments who require enhanced communications infrastructure and capabilities. With our space-based network, no subsea cables are involved, mitigating common risks to terrestrial fiber.

Together with Cisco, Rivada is publishing this Whitepaper on advanced data networking from space which acts as a blueprint for secure, resilient data communications in orbit. The whitepaper is being presented at the SATELLITE 2025 event in Washington DC.  

Watch This Space is a series of fireside chat style conversations between Rivada Networks host Brian Carney (SVP Corporate Communications) and guests bringing interesting insights on all things space and networking!

With many LEO constellations either launching or in the advanced planning stage, do we need another one? The answer is YES, if you are building a unique and highly disruptive solution for enterprise and government communications.

Today, data is an asset the protection of which needs to be forefront of many minds. Through cutting of undersea cables, interception of wired and wireless signals, breaching of endpoints, and hacking of entire networks, your rivals, competitors, enemies, and criminals can gain access to your data or disrupt your operations. The results have a financial and credibility impact and even legal liability.

Remote operations are a fact of life in the oil & gas industry and modern off-shore production platforms are increasingly moving towards greater digitalization and automation to drive efficiency and safety. Rivada’s Outernet, a unique new LEO network architecture, will offer global energy operators access to sufficient secure network capacity to meet all their data-transfer needs in real time, all the time, anywhere on the planet.

Satellite communications is a vital element of resilient communications in disaster response scenarios.

Rivada’s Outernet provides organizations and governments planning and deploying critical communications with a resilient and secure network that delivers highly secure Carrier Ethernet service via LEO satellites. This orbital network enables high throughput, low latency, operator grade security and mobility, in combination with rapid deployment. And being MEF complaint, the Rivada Outernet can be seamlessly incorporated into critical communication and PACE planning.

Our third newsletter is out! Download the newsletter to learn more about the Outernet and our latest partnerships.

With the Outernet, consisting of 600 satellites, Rivada Space Networks wants to build a European communications network for companies and governments. The Handelsblatt journal editorial team learnt why this is necessary from Declan Ganley, CEO of the German satellite operator Rivada Space Networks.

Our second newsletter is out! Download the newsletter to learn more about the Outernet and our latest partnerships.

What was happening when the official announcement came in that we received the waiver? A throwback to a great moment which the team experienced together in Munich.

Connectivity in the humanitarian sector has a huge impact as it enables an effective response to humanitarian crises. Rivada Space Networks aims to help provide education, save lives and enable rapid communication in crisis situations.

Rivada has taken another major step toward the deployment of its constellations. Following a successful team meeting with Terran Orbital in the U.S., we have completed the official onboarding of the industrial partners and subcontractors that will design, manufacture and launch our constellations.