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RIVIR Connect your industrial assets to blended cellular and satellite networks with RIVIR

The world's new cellular satellites are a game changing technology. Most people don't yet understand how massively disru...
06/04/2026

The world's new cellular satellites are a game changing technology. Most people don't yet understand how massively disruptive they are.

But they are not cell towers in the sky with mains power and fiber optic backhaul. They have strictly finite capacity, and they can see a lot of ground.

Everything about this new network has to be managed for the edge cases and the worst case scenarios.

When a number of terrestrial cell towers go down in a storm there may suddenly be tens of thousands of handsets trying to send data over these satellites.

Many of these could be related to emergency services.

This is where the unique RIVIR system architecture becomes important in how we think about building the baseload of IoT and M2M users on this network.

The RIVIR system is UDP based. It does not waste precious network capacity trying to establish and maintain chatty underlying TCP sessions.

In the good times RIVIR is around 88% more data efficient than existing gateways. But in the bad times, when TCP IP gateways would be repeatedly trying and failing to establish sessions, then a packetized data approach, such as RIVIR's, will really be the only one that is scalable.

This photo of where RIVIR lives, the beautiful South Island of demonstrates an issue that our system helps overcome in...
06/04/2026

This photo of where RIVIR lives, the beautiful South Island of demonstrates an issue that our system helps overcome in the adoption of NTN (Non Terrestrial Networks).

The protection of the network during storms and other natural disasters.

Each individual Starlink D2C satellite passing overhead can see thousands of cell towers and millions of potential users.

In the good times that’s all manageable. Only a small percentage of customer devices that are outside of cell service will be roaming upward to use the satellites.

But under those alps running the length of the Island. That’s a very big fault line. And it’s predicted to go off.

When it does, and if the quake is large, few cell towers within this view will continue operating uninterrupted.

Millions of devices will suddenly look to the satellites for communication.

Some of these will be public safety and emergency users with critical communication requirements.

The RIVIR system mitigates these demand spikes.

By reducing the data payload of devices using the network by around 88%, RIVIR simply increases the effective capacity of the network. Reducing the risk of overloading and the worst case scenario of millions of message failures and retries.

By maintaining a live management relationship with every deployed gateway, RIVIR also gives MNOs options for proactive (firmware and config updates) and reactive (stand downs and data prioritisation) management of gateway behaviour to protect network capacity before and during major events and recovery.

SpaceX have built one of the most important tools for disaster recovery in history. RIVIR is working hard with MNOs to protect that value when customers need it most.

Inside a Starlink dish there are over 1,000 small antennas that “beam steer” to produce the amazing, smooth uninterrupte...
06/04/2026

Inside a Starlink dish there are over 1,000 small antennas that “beam steer” to produce the amazing, smooth uninterrupted Broadband connectivity.

Cellular devices, however, can only use 1 antenna to connect to the new network. Producing a more intermittent network that is not favourable for traditional systems that rely on uninterrupted TCP IP sessions.

This is why, at the core of the RIVIR system, is a sessionless “virtually persistent digital twin” protocol that manages data flows seamlessly around network connectivity gaps.

By eliminating the chatty underlying IP call, the RIVIR system is also 88% more data efficient. Protecting the finite network capacity for other users.

This protection of network capacity, through hyper-frugal data protocols, is very important for the users adopting D2C. Particularly during storms and other events that will cause spikes in demand for satellite connectivity.

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