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Partners & Alliances
Photon-IV collaborates with defense primes, satellite operators, and government agencies to deliver integrated solutions.
Seamless, secure connectivity across satellite and terrestrial networks — powered by predictive AI for defense, aerospace, and critical infrastructure.
Our vision is to create a world where resilient, intelligent connectivity keeps every mission online — from remote terrain to the edge of space.
Photon-IV integrates satellite and terrestrial networks with advanced artificial intelligence, supporting Canadian technological sovereignty in space communications. We deliver mission-critical solutions that unify LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite constellations with ground-based infrastructure.
Photon-IV strives to help Canada and its allies achieve true technological sovereignty in space and communications, ensuring that defense forces maintain uninterrupted command and control across all domains.
Predictive algorithms that anticipate link degradation before it impacts operations
Encrypted, mission-critical architectures with electronic warfare resilience
Canadian-built solutions ensuring allied technological independence
Seamless handover between LEO satellites and terrestrial networks enabled by advanced AI/ML. Our technology predicts link degradation and mobility events, enabling proactive connection switching that maintains stable, low-latency communications for aircraft, vessels, remote bases, and autonomous systems.
Encrypted, defense-grade architectures deliver highly available links for command and control, ISR data, and joint operations. We unify satellite and terrestrial assets with electronic warfare resilience, ensuring continuous communications in contested environments.
End-to-end communication systems designed and tuned to each mission — from link-budget analysis and waveform selection to routing optimization. Customized solutions for UAVs, maritime operations, border security, and critical infrastructure protection.
AI-driven testbeds simulate orbital mechanics, mobility patterns, interference, and traffic loads so teams can trial algorithms in realistic environments. Reduce deployment risk through validated simulation before fielding.
Purpose-built platforms delivering operational advantage across defense and IoT domains.
Secure Multi-Orbit Defense Connectivity Platform
Stellarlink is Photon-IV's flagship defense connectivity platform that orchestrates seamless, encrypted communications across LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite constellations integrated with terrestrial networks. Built for NATO-interoperable operations, Stellarlink provides real-time AI-driven handover management ensuring zero-drop connectivity for command and control, ISR data relay, and joint force coordination.
Machine learning models predict satellite pass windows and link quality 60+ seconds ahead, pre-routing traffic to optimal paths before degradation occurs.
Unifies satellite, airborne relay, and ground nodes into a self-healing mesh — resilient to jamming, spoofing, and kinetic disruption.
Defense-grade Type 1 equivalent cryptographic layer with quantum-resistant key exchange, meeting allied COMSEC requirements.
Electronic warfare resilience with adaptive frequency hopping, anti-jam waveforms, and autonomous link recovery for denied-spectrum scenarios.
IoT-NTN Battery Optimization Intelligence
Predict is Photon-IV's AI-powered battery optimization solution purpose-built for IoT devices operating on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). By leveraging predictive analytics and satellite pass scheduling intelligence, Predict dramatically extends device battery life — solving the critical power constraint that limits IoT-NTN deployment at scale.
Predicts LEO satellite visibility windows and schedules device wake/transmit cycles to align with optimal pass geometry, eliminating wasted power from blind transmission attempts.
ML models continuously learn device usage patterns and environmental conditions, dynamically adjusting sleep/wake ratios to maximize battery life without sacrificing data delivery guarantees.
Real-time calculation of optimal transmit power based on predicted satellite position, atmospheric conditions, and required QoS — reducing RF energy waste by up to 40%.
Centralized dashboard providing predictive battery life modeling, anomaly detection, and maintenance scheduling across thousands of deployed IoT-NTN devices.
AI-Powered O-RAN Intelligence Platform
Spectra is Photon-IV's open RAN intelligence platform delivering AI-native xApps and rApps for the Near-RT and Non-RT RIC. Built on 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance specifications, Spectra embeds machine learning directly into the radio access network — enabling real-time spectrum optimization, interference management, and autonomous traffic steering for mobile network operators and private 5G deployments.
Sub-second closed-loop control applications for beam management, interference cancellation, and dynamic spectrum sharing — deployed on standardized E2 and O1 interfaces.
Long-horizon AI/ML applications driving energy optimization, policy generation, and capacity planning — continuously training on live network KPIs via the A1 interface.
Purpose-built telecom foundation models trained on radio environment data — enabling intent-based networking, predictive anomaly detection, and self-optimizing network (SON) automation.
Fully interoperable with any O-RAN compliant O-CU, O-DU, and O-RU hardware — validated at ORAN Alliance Plugfests for multi-vendor deployment confidence.
Reliable connectivity for Arctic operations where terrestrial infrastructure is non-existent. Multi-orbit satellite coverage ensures persistent command and control for northern sovereignty missions, remote sensor networks, and Arctic patrol operations.
Learn more →Uninterrupted air-to-ground and air-to-satellite communications for manned and unmanned aircraft. AI-driven handover ensures continuous data links during high-speed transit across multiple satellite coverage zones and terrestrial network boundaries.
Learn more →Robust naval communications for fleet operations, autonomous surface vessels, and maritime domain awareness. Seamless connectivity from port to open ocean, maintaining tactical data links across vast maritime theaters of operation.
Learn more →Photon-IV collaborates with defense primes, satellite operators, and government agencies to deliver integrated solutions.
Photon-IV has been awarded a $250,000 contract through Canada's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program for advanced R&D in defense connectivity.
Read more →Our IoT-NTN battery optimization solution enters real-world field trials with a leading industry partner, demonstrating 3-5x battery life extension for remote sensor networks.
Read more →Photon-IV's Stellarlink platform will demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability at the upcoming O-RAN Alliance Plugfest, validating open architecture defense connectivity.
Read more →Join a team of engineers, researchers, and strategists solving the hardest problems in defense communications.
Baseband & Protocols
Design and develop baseband processing systems and wireless communication protocols for next-generation NTN-TN networks.
RF & System Design
Lead the design and optimization of wireless communication systems spanning satellite and terrestrial networks.
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