"Imagine 600 satellites forming a kind of fishing net around the globe and communicating with each other". This network would be completely independent of underground cables." The Outernet would be a back-up internet that would keep the most important vital functions of digital civilization running in the event that the cable-based internet were destroyed.

Rivada Networks, the developer and operator of the Outernet, has named the Honorable Tony Abbott, the 28^th prime minister of Australia, to its board of directors. Abbott will replace former Field Marshall Charles Guthrie, a member of Rivada’s Board of Directors for more than a decade until his passing earlier this year.

Telewizja Republika spoke to CEO Declan Ganley about our unique space-based solution: The Outernet, the first self-contained global communications network that does not rely on the internet and will provide vital connectivity for critical communications.