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ND SatCom Introduces New Military Portable Satcom Terminal |
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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Feb. 8, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― ND SatCom, an SES Astra company, will be introducing a new, light-weight yet powerful and extremely easily deployable portable military terminal to support transmission of voice, data and video. ND SatCom said the terminal allows for fully meshed, single hop network transmission.
The MPT1000 is suited for out of area missions, in remote or rough terrain where low weight and rapid terminal deployment is key. The terminal is portable and stowed in two cases, allowing for easy transportation whether on foot, ATV or car. The system can be pre-configured, hence requires no on-the-spot configuration and is up and running in under 15 minutes according to ND SatCom.
The portable terminal is designed for Ku-Band operation and an X-Band version is currently under development. ND SatCom said the terminal consists of a one meter six-piece twin skinned aluminium reflector antenna, an LNB, a 4 W SSPA, a tablet PC with integrated GPS and a compass, as well as the stand alone ruggedized modem.
The modem is based on ND SatCom’s SkyWAN technology which offers flexibility, scalability and efficiency, and allows for data rates up to 8 Mbit/s. MF-TDMA satellite channel access is used to provide fully meshed connectivity between all network nodes and to efficiently exploit the satellite channel capacity. Resources are assigned to a user station only when needed. The integration of real-time and non-real-time services is emphasized in the SkyWAN approach which is based on packet switching technology.
The MPT1000 provides an Ethernet interface which connects the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) based networks and equipment.
According to ND SatCom, the MPT1000 fulfills the MIL-STD-810E requirements and is thus operational in almost all climatic conditions from cold to hot and from dry to humid. Due to the wide range DC power input, the system can be operated with different types of batteries available in the customer’s logistic chain or directly from the transport vehicle.
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