Amphinicy Technologies

CORE BUSINESS

Amphinicy Technologies (AT) is a valued provider of complex, tailor-made software solutions and all-round software support for the satellite industry. AT has been on the market for 20+ years, with its Luxembourg office established in 2002. Amphinicy Luxembourg has high expertise in the fields

of SatCom and Earth Observation. It provides enterprise solutions for big commercial and governmental projects, both in civilian and defense sectors.

The 5 pillars we’re focusing at the moment are:

  • 5G-NTN/6G virtualized gateways, Optical Ground Segment (M&C and Network Orchestration), 
  • Secure SatCom (Zero Trust Architecture), 
  • IV&V (Independent Validation and Verification), 
  • Software Engineering Services for customers in Space domain.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES  

Products:

  • ViSAGE: virtualized 5G NTN Gateway as a Service (GwaaS). ViSAGE delivers Digitized Signal & Data Processing and Flexibility at the Gateway for 5G NTN Services.
  • Monica: a modern monitoring and control built on the latest industry standards. It comes in two versions– as M&C solution for local ground station (e.g. broadcasting teleport), or as ultra-scalable NMS solution for monitoring huge networks (e.g. VSAT networks, IoT, etc.)
  • Blink: an innovative software solution for ultra-fast EO telemetry acquisition and processing, using today’s top-of-the-line commercial CPUs and GPUs and radically reduces costs, improves flexibility and maintenance. 

Services:

Tailor-made software engineering and consulting services and all-round software support for the customers in the Space industry.

TECHNICAL MEANS

Amphinicy Technologies focuses on technical excellence and employs highly qualified ICT and SatCom engineers with expertise in the following ground segment domains: 

SatCom solutions:

  • Virtualization of DSP (5G-NR, DVB-S2(x), CCSDS)
  • 5G: virtualized 5G-NTN gateways and orchestration
  • Monitor and control for Ground segment (OGS and RF)
  • Ground segment simulations (OGS and RF)
  • Link Availability Calculator
  • Mission Operations
  • Embedded systems

Space Technologies / standards:

  • Following the ECSS process

Extensive and valuable experience working on demanding ESA projects as well as on solutions for industry leaders in fields of satellite operations, satellite services and satellite networks.

MAIN CUSTOMERS

  • International space and humanitarian agencies (ESA, EUTELSAT, DLR, LSA, UNHCR),
  • Leading satellite operators and global satellite service providers/ integrators (SES, RSS, LuxSpace, GOMSpace),
  • Teleports and space mission operation centers (RSS) and
  • SatCom and Optical equipment manufacturers (HITEC, iDirect, Officina Stellare)

MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS

Amphinicy Luxembourg provides software engineering services in following projects: 

ViSAGE

  • Delivering virtualized 5G-NTN Gateway as a Service (GwaaS) solution by: 
    • Virtualizing SatCom modems
    • Implementing 5G Orchestration layer
    • Enabling 5G D2C (direct-to-cellular) service
  • Moving SatCom modems implementation from traditional hardware (FPGA) into a software domain (CPU)
  • Virtualizing DSP and making it cloud ready

SELF-SUFFICIENT OGS

  • Partnership with HITEC (L) and PEPITe (B)
  • Using Monica as a Monitor and Control solution for 6 ESA OGS
  • Adding AI layer on top of Monica to make OGS autonomous and self-maintainable
  • Strategically positioning Monica as M&C in OGS segment

P2PFSO

  • Point-2-Point Free Space Optical
  • An EDF project led by French MoD
  • Amphinicy Technologies is in charge of Cybersecurity provisions
  • Implementing secure communication protocols
  • Making communication terminal “unhackable“ during maintenance

ONEST

  • Prime contractor for OGS Network Simulation testbed
  • Partnership with SES, RSS and Officina Stellare
  • aaS solution that will be hosted for ESA in Redu

COPERNICUS

AIV for Sentinel communications modules

ST Engineering / iDirect Europe

Developing Dialog NMS and Standolone modem ecosystem

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