CPC H04B 7/18584 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04B 7/1858 (2013.01); H04B 7/18523 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01)] | 26 Claims |
1. A method of managing a communications network including orchestration of communication payloads in satellites, the method comprising:
using a network planning system to:
receive a service model of a service, wherein the service model is defined in the YANG data modeling language;
generate one or more network models based on the service model, wherein each of the one or more network models represents a network, and is defined in the YANG data modeling language, and wherein each of the one or more network models comprises a payload model of a satellite payload in a satellite orbiting Earth satellite including payload information to enable service provisioning; and
send at least one of the one or more network models to a control system in a network represented by the at least one network model; and
using at least one hardware processor to:
receive the payload model, wherein the payload model is defined in YANG data modeling language, and wherein the payload model represents a configuration for the satellite payload, wherein the satellite payload comprises one or more components, and wherein the configuration specifies a setting for at least one of the one or more components;
translate the payload model into one or more satellite commands for configuring the satellite payload according to the configuration represented in the payload model; and
reconfigure the satellite payload using the one or more satellite commands.
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