The Internet exchange layer for optical satellites.
Space Internet Exchange is a neutral interconnection fabric for optical ground stations, Earth observation constellations, GEO relay networks, and cloud on-ramps. Operated by an Indigenous-majority-owned Canadian company built around data sovereignty by design.
Ventures Ltd.
data residency
50.04° N · 110.68° W
development
Optical links need more than ground stations.
They need switching, routing, scheduling, weather diversity, commercial clearing, and trusted access to the best sky on Earth. The winning network will not be one station. It will be a fabric.
Weather breaks single-site networks.
Clouds and smoke turn optical ground access into a probabilistic service. Operators need coordinated access to multiple clear-sky regions, not isolated terminals.
Operators want capacity, not complexity.
Earth observation and relay operators should be able to buy optical access through one commercial and technical interface, with one credential, one schedule, one bill.
A neutral exchange layer.
Space Internet Exchange connects sites, satellites, clouds, and relay networks through shared APIs, routing policies, identity, and settlement — operated by a party with no satellite business of its own.
The switching fabric.
The exchange sits between satellite operators and physical infrastructure. It abstracts weather, geography, terminal ownership, and backhaul into a programmable service layer.
One control plane. Many sites and operators.
A neutral coordination layer that scheduling, identity, settlement, and routing all flow through. Operators integrate once. Site owners and terminal vendors integrate once. Everything else is policy.
Each participating site keeps operational autonomy. The exchange does not own optical terminals or compete with the site owners and operators it interconnects.
Medicine Hat, Alberta.
The first demonstration site is being scoped on the Canadian prairie — one of the highest-sunshine, lowest-humidity regions in North America. A sovereign Canadian optical node, with Treaty 7 Nation partnership being developed alongside the technical build.
A sovereign Canadian optical demonstration node.
Medicine Hat combines high sunshine hours, dry continental air, flat terrain, established trans-Canada fibre, and an unusually receptive municipal infrastructure posture. It is one of the strongest optical-grade sky regions in the country.
The site is being developed in conjunction with a Canadian space industry technical partner and in early-stage conversation with Treaty 7 Nations on the question of community participation, hosting, and governance — addressed at the start of the project, not as a retrofit.
Built on standards. Operated on trust.
An interconnection fabric is only as useful as the protocols and credentials it speaks. And it is only as neutral as its governance. Both are addressed deliberately, not assumed.
The exchange is designed to align with established and emerging space-communications standards, with optical terminal interoperability as a first-class concern.
Federated identity for all participants — operators, site owners, terminal vendors, customers. Fine-grained authorization at the resource level rather than per-site account sprawl.
Usage metering, service-level enforcement, and commercial settlement are part of the exchange layer, not bolted on. Reservations and consumption are signed, reconciled, and disputable through a neutral arbitration process.
Data residency is configurable per mission and per jurisdiction. Every reservation, handoff, and routing decision is captured in an append-only audit log that participants and regulators can inspect.
Four conversations. Different rails.
The fabric only exists if four constituencies come to the table. Each conversation looks different — pick the one that fits and we will route it to the right person.
EO & relay operators
You move bits down from space and you are tired of negotiating ground access one station at a time. Talk to us about founding-customer access and roadmap influence.
Optical terminal makers
Your terminals need utilization, not a ground-station business. We are terminal-agnostic by design and want your optical units integrated into a fabric that brings demand to them.
Land, fibre, sky, people
If you represent a community, region, or operator with clear-sky land, fibre access, and the appetite to host or co-own a node — including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments — start here.
Sovereign infra capital
Canadian sovereign optical infrastructure with Indigenous co-ownership sits inside several federal and provincial funding envelopes. Strategic investors and public-capital partners welcome.
Why an Indigenous-owned exchange.
A neutral interconnection fabric is a public-interest piece of infrastructure dressed in commercial clothing. The question of who holds it, and who can never quietly tilt it, matters as much as the technology.
“Most ‘neutral’ infrastructure is neutral until it isn’t. We are putting the answer to that question into the cap table, not the marketing copy.”
Space Internet Exchange is operated by Indigenous Space Ventures Ltd., a Canadian company under Indigenous majority ownership. The operator does not run a satellite constellation, sell its own optical terminals, or compete with the customers of the fabric.
The governance posture is OCAP®-aligned: customer and partner data is held under the control of the parties to whom it belongs. Canadian data residency is a baseline, not an optional configuration. Audit logs are inspectable by participants and applicable regulators.
The same operator brings working experience in Indigenous data sovereignty, federated platform architecture, and federally-aligned infrastructure delivery — the design patterns that underwrite the trust layer of the exchange.
Build the neutral layer before everyone builds silos.
The optical space economy is moving from experiments to infrastructure. The window to do this as a fabric — rather than a thicket of single-operator ground networks — is open now and not for long.