Middle Mile in Orbit: Where Satellite Fits Between Backhaul and Data Centers

Session details:

• Satellite's future integrating/bridging with hybrid terrestrial networks—across everything from rural connectivity to emergency response—and the sector's repositioning post-BEAD  
• How it can be used to fill gaps on fiber construction timelines that stretch on (especially given supply pulls from AI and BEAD at the same time)  
• Constraints across orbital lifecycles, like spectrum constraints and scale challenges, and what that really says about its future role in end-user connectivity
• Data centers in the sky: separating fact and fiction and the plausible future there, and how that plays into infrastructural capacity down the line