Entities

Network Configuration

The overall Network configuration is defined using NBI Entities, including:

Describes something physical that has a position, which can be fixed or moving in either the Earth’s or the Moon’s frame of reference

Network Node

Represents a logical network device

Some Nodes, such as aircraft, satellites, and ground stations, will have a Platform and an associated NetworkNode, but there is not always a 1-to-1 relationship:

Some entities must be included in the network topology for their routing tables to be updated, but their physical location is irrelevant, so only their logical relationships in the network need to be modeled. These entities can be defined as a NetworkNode without a Platform, such as for a point of presence to the Internet, routers and switches on the ground, or enterprise cloud resources in the ground segment that will be routed to.
For other entities, it’s useful to model a physical location, but Spacetime does not orchestrate the network across these entities. These entities can be defined as a Platform without a NetworkNode, such as for a third-party satellite, a victim of interference, or a jammer.

Service Provisioning

Networking Service between nodes are provisioned by Spacetime according to Service Requests.

The service requests are defined using NBI entities such as:

Service Request