Industries · Earth Observation

From downlink to insight — petabytes, fast.

Earth-observation and remote-sensing operators downlink enormous volumes of imagery that must move from globally distributed ground stations to cloud, archive, and processing — then out to customers. Zettar fills ground-station and backbone links at line rate, bypasses the cloud tax on processing bursts, and scales out with no software ceiling.

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Who we serveSatellite imageryRemote sensingGround stationsNewspace
The problem

Imagery piles up faster than you can move it.

  • Satellite downlink produces petabytes of imagery faster than your tools can move it off the ground station.
  • Globally distributed ground stations sit far from the cloud, archive, and processing where the data has to go.
  • Cloud processing bursts lose 30–50% of throughput to cloud-stack overhead — you pay for compute that waits on data.
  • Customers want finished imagery products fast, and every hour in transit is an hour they aren't buying.
How Zettar helps

Fill every link, from antenna to archive.

Downlink path

Fills the downlink path

Move imagery off the ground station at line rate — ~90%+ of the bandwidth you already pay for — scaling out with no software ceiling. Zettar is never the bottleneck; your infrastructure is the limit, and we reach it.

Global reach

Global ground stations

Distance-insensitive movement between far-flung stations and your core — validated over real 5,000- and 12,375-mile transfers. Geography stops dictating how fast your imagery gets where it's going.

Cloud burst

Burst to cloud processing

Hybrid file and object movement that bypasses the 30–50% cloud penalty. In a real KEK-to-AWS transfer, zx ran 5.9× faster than aws-cli — burst processing without the cloud tax.

Edge to core

Edge to archive

A compact edge appliance at remote ground stations moves imagery to the datacenter core — encrypted, checksummed, turnkey, and platform-neutral. Pretuned by Zettar, so your team and your vendors tune nothing.

Proof, not promises
"Zettar moved an actual petabyte over a 5,000-mile network loop in 29 hours — encrypted and checksummed — at 96% bandwidth utilization."
— SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & ESnet, U.S. DOE Read the record → See the paper →

That run was capped at 80 Gbps to spare the shared network — on a full 100 Gbps link, it's a petabyte a day.

5.9×
faster than cloud-native tools — burst processing without the cloud tax
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FAQ

Common questions

FAQ

How fast can Zettar move satellite imagery?

At line rate — it fills ground-station and backbone links and scales out with no software ceiling, roughly 10x typical movers.

FAQ

Does it work across globally distributed ground stations?

Yes — zx is distance-insensitive, validated over real 5,000- and 12,375-mile transfers, so distant ground stations move imagery at full speed.

FAQ

Can it burst processing to the cloud without the cloud tax?

Yes — hybrid file and object movement bypasses the 30-50% cloud-stack penalty; in a real KEK-to-AWS transfer, zx ran 5.9x faster than aws-cli.

FAQ

Can it run at a remote ground station?

Yes — the same co-designed mover spans a compact edge appliance to the datacenter core.

FAQ

Is the imagery secure and verified?

Every transfer is encrypted with TLS and protected by unconditional end-to-end checksums.

Get started

Turn downlink into delivered product, faster.

See the zx Appliance move earth-observation imagery from ground station to cloud at speeds rsync and aws-cli can't reach.

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