Anue Systems, in network delay and impairment emulation, announced recent advances in the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) project, an initiative sponsored by the US military to achieve protected, mobile, broadband, IP-based connectivity to strategic and tactical users worldwide.
The goal of TSAT is to integrate the existing satellite communication, network with a next-generation system, to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. The new system will combine data from multiple ISR platforms to establish a common view of a situation that is available to all involved with an operation, including ground, sea, and air troops, on-site command and control centers, and decision-makers in the US.
Recent tests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Labs demonstrated the interoperability of the TSAT next-generation processor router (NGPR) with a government reference ground terminal. Additional tests in Redondo Beach, CA demonstrated the ability to integrate payloads to create a unified situational view from multiple sources. In both of these tests, Anue solutions were used to emulate the eventual production network environment with latency, bit errors and frequency shifts.
Hemi Thaker, president and CEO of Anue, said, "Anue Systems is proud to be a part of the TSAT initiative. We developed a Doppler shift capability especially for this type of application. It can shift a live signal in increments as small as one part per million to emulate the movement of satellites relative to each other and to ground stations. Combine that with the world's only line-rate 10-gigabit network emulator and our ability to reproduce the high delay, up to a second or more, found in satellite networks and you have the only system capable of emulating a high-speed satellite network like TSAT, which is why they've been using Anue System 10 gigabit network emulators since 2004."
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