AccelerComm celebrates 10 years in operation securing 56th patent

AccelerComm Ltd, a provider of physical layer IP for 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN), has announced the grant of its 56th international patent, marking a significant milestone as the company completes its 10th year of operations.

The patent strengthens AccelerComm’s IP portfolio in 5G channel coding and physical layer acceleration, which covers polar coding, LDPC coding, CRC acceleration, soft-decision demodulation, channel estimation and equalisation, and the hardware acceleration architectures that enable high-performance execution of physical layer algorithms across both terrestrial and satellite deployments.

Founded at the University of Southampton in 2016, AccelerComm has built its portfolio in close alignment with the 3GPP New Radio standardisation process, where it has been an active contributor. Its patents protect innovations that are not only standards-compliant, but already deployed at scale, supporting more than 200 commercial satellites and licensed by major silicon vendors.

“Every patent in our portfolio protects technology that has been proven not just in lab simulations, but in hardware and in orbit,” said David Helfgott, CEO of AccelerComm. “That combination of expertise, silicon integration and flight heritage gives our customers — from chipset vendors to satellite prime contractors — a robust and defensible technical foundation as they build out next-generation non-terrestrial networks in space.”

In January 2026, AccelerComm was selected to participate in the Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator, contributing its 5G physical layer solution for on-board signal processing in software-defined satellites. The program is exploring how regenerative satellite architectures can deliver full 5G base station functionality in orbit, rather than acting purely as ‘bent pipe’ signal relays for stations on the ground.

AccelerComm said its role centres on enabling high-performance, power-efficient physical layer processing under the constraints of space-based systems, where size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements are critical. Its hardware acceleration techniques are designed to deliver significantly higher throughput than software-only approaches, while maintaining the efficiency required for satellite deployment.

The work forms part of a broader industry movement towards fully integrated, standards-based NTN networks capable of delivering both broadband and massive IoT services from space. In March 2026, AccelerComm and Radisys expanded their collaboration to support both NB-IoT NTN and NR-NTN within a unified 3GPP-compliant platform, enabling operators to address a wider range of connectivity use cases within a single architecture.

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