Dedi Haziza of NexTenna
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This is Israeli Technology Founders Speak, a podcast of conversations with successful Israeli high tech and biotech entrepreneurs. With your host, Avraham Hermon.
Dedi Haziza is the CEO and founder of Nextena, an Israeli startup building the antenna technology behind the next generation of satellite internet. As networks like Starlink, OneWeb, and Amazon's upcoming Leo constellation race to connect the whole planet, Nextena has developed a terminal that uses a fraction of the power and cost of existing options. And unlike Those networks works with any satellite system out there. Avraham sat down with Deddy to discuss how he built the core technology from the ground up, why he moved the company to Israel after years at Google, the trade-offs of building deep tech here, what's next for Nextena, the future of data centers in space, tips for startup founders, and much more.
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Sure. So Nextenna solves the critical problem of creating a terminal that allows us to communicate with the new satellite constellations like OneWeb, Starlink that everybody knows, Leo, the upcoming one from Amazon, in an effective way, in a sense of very low power consumption and extremely low cost, so it can be deployed on a worldwide skill. It's really bridging the digital divide which allows people to get access to the internet anywhere on earth. So Nexttena is building the terminal that would allow that to happen.
Okay, so everyone's been hearing about things like Starlink, which has been pretty popular. You know, people were talking about getting internet access to all sorts of different places in the world no matter where you are. It came up regarding the war in Iran, also, right? People were saying that we need to give the Iranian people access to internet if the regime shut it down. So this new type of technology can be accessed. So what's the problem with the current terminals that exist today.
Two. I mean with it's actually with the terminals and the network. So the first thing we did, our terminals or antenna technology, in essence, is based on a very basic face shifter that does not consume power. Any other technology consumes very high power. For example, on a foot-size antenna with Starlink, they're consuming about 200 watts, 200 to 350. We're consuming on the Same size 1.6 watts. So what does it mean? It means that we can provide a terminal that would operate on a small battery and a small solar panel, and you don't really need infrastructure. So for cases like Iran as an example, or anywhere for remote locations, you can take a terminal with a battery, put it on the ground, press a button, and it's and it's connected.
That's one. That's one. Okay. The other piece is that our system is open, meaning for example, Starlink is a closed network, meaning you can only operate with Starlink satellites when you get a Starlink terminal. No. Now if they shut down Starlink Downlink, you're dead. What we have, for example, now we're delivering it to Gilat, we have a system that is an open source, meaning the antenna is tracking electronically the satellites. Yeah. It means it changes the direction of look angle electronically. And it has the radio that takes the higher frequency signal into a lower frequency signal. But it's open in a sense that we connect to it and can connect to it any type of modem. The modem, what what does the modem does?
It takes the RF signal and transfers that into data, into something you can a computer can understand.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:10
2
What problem does NexTenna’s satellite terminal aim to solve?
5:10–11:42
3
How does NexTenna achieve ultra‑low power consumption compared to Starlink terminals?
11:42–14:15
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Why is NexTenna’s antenna technology considered “open” and why does that matter?
14:15–20:28
5
How did Dedi’s experience at Google shape NexTenna’s core technology?
20:28–26:59
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What role do patents and IP play in NexTenna’s business strategy?
26:59–31:21