ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded contracts totaling US$25 million for LinkWay®S2 satellite modems to support the U.S. Army, USMC, and other DoD customers. The LinkWayS2 systems support various military communication programs such as WIN-T, SNAP, FHRN, SWAN, and C-MNF. LinkWayS2 modems provide single-hop, full mesh, high speed bandwidth-on-demand flexibility and efficiency that a hub-based satellite network system is unable to provide for the named applications. The modems delivered under these orders will also introduce DoD-approved transmission security (TRANSEC) to the LinkWay system as well as new LinkWayS2 system that improve throughput and efficiency. The LinkWayS2 system is a “single-hop” network that connects directly from one terminal to another — even to multiple other sites at once — rather than requiring a second relay through a central hub. In addition to direct links, the LinkWayS2 modems include a second demodulator to receive simultaneous DVB-S2 broadcast or multicast traffic from Global Broadcast System (GBS) in-theater transmitters. The LinkWayS2 modem is 100 percent backwards-compatible with the widely deployed LinkWay2100 series modem with advanced capabilities such as 8-PSK modulation and open-standard Turbo coding.