ND SatCom Reports Sale of 5,000 SkyWAN Systems

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Jan. 20, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — The market demand for meshed and hybrid network topologies has boosted ND SatCom’s satellite-based broadband VSAT and has now sold 5,000 units of its SkyWAN system.

ND SatCom said more than 1,100 systems were delivered in 2005 with customers in more than 130 countries using individually tailored SkyWAN systems in different branches. This includes air traffic control, oil & gas, the maritime sector as well as government and defense institutions.

“ND SatCom is proud to have reached this milestone of 5,000 sold SkyWAN systems. We have made major efforts to further improve our advanced technology also for GSM and the broadcast & media markets,” comments Dr Gerhard Bommas, CTO at ND SatCom.

The company said a new software version provides extended functionality and more flexibility for SkyWAN. Main new features include the support of cross strapped transponders with an extended network size of more than 510 nodes. ND SatCom said the software also improves QoS for VoIP and IP Video multicast sessions. The serial port speed has now been increased to support up to 6 Mbit/s with up to 120 GSM calls per port.

SkyWAN is a flexible and versatile MF-TDMA VSAT system to establish wide area corporate network infrastructures including IP Router as well as FR switch functionality. Standard user interfaces such as Ethernet and Frame Relay, voice/fax, serial synchronous and asynchronous connections are available and ready for applications based on these standards providing a unified network infrastructure. Internet Protocol (IP) applications such as web access, IP Video, or Voice over IP are also fully supported.

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