{"id":81009,"date":"2013-05-23T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelligence-community-military-face-challenges-from-high-throughput-satellites\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:18:20","slug":"intelligence-community-military-face-challenges-from-high-throughput-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelligence-community-military-face-challenges-from-high-throughput-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Community, Military Face Challenges From High Throughput Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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GVF Roundtable Discussion on HTS Challenges<\/i>
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[Satellite TODAY 05-23-13] As satellite communications technologies evolve and new applications become available for the intelligence community, military and private sector business, new operational and engineering challenges also emerge in both the space segment and a range of ground segment environments. These challenges served as fodder for a discussion at a High Throughput Satellite (HTS) roundtable discussion hosted by GVF<\/b> on May 21 in Washington D.C.
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\n     Rajeev Gopal, senior director of advanced programs for Hughes Defense and Intelligence<\/b> Systems Division said one challenge Hughes faces is increased demand. \u201cYou need coverage, you need capacity and you need very good management so that you can install, provision, operate and do the diagnostics very effectively and cost effectively,\u201d Gopal said.
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\n     Another panelist David Bettinger, chief technology officer, iDirect<\/b> said he sees HTS as an opportunity to offer increased bandwidth at lower costs. \u201cWe are pretty excited about some of the advances that are going on the satellites themselves to bring back some flexibility to the footprints of bandwidth allocations,\u201d Bettinger said.<\/p>\n

     But along with those benefits, Bettinger notes challenges too. \u201cWe have to interface with all of these [satellite operators and manufacturers] as a diagnostic technology provider,\u201d Bettinger said. While full-hub diversity is another important challenge,  \u201cWe are excited with the direction everything is going,\u201d he noted.
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\n     But Bettinger has determined these obstacles are not insurmountable. \u201cWe effectively operated a network seamlessly through a hub based rain storm by switching our traffic over to a series of line cards at a different location,\u201d he said.
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\n     Routing issues have also become another challenge. \u201cHaving an airplane flying over someone else\u2019s country and having that service terminate and teleport in a different country. There are a large number of countries out there that prefer to look at that data first,\u201d Bettinger said.
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\n     \u201cFrom an IP standpoint we\u2019ve had to make a lot of advances certainly advancing IPV6,\u201d he said. Martin Coleman executive director of sIRG<\/b> said, \u201cWe can do a lot from the ground and that\u2019s cost effective. Keep the satellites and payloads simple,\u201d he suggested.
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\n     According to Coleman, the biggest challenge is \u201cto get smarter on the ground.\u201d And that often comes with a price. \u201cThe military may pave the way with research and get us better satellites,\u201d Coleman said. That solution only comes with time, he noted.
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\n     \u201cBut whatever [benefits] comes out of that won\u2019t come to the commercial sector probably for another 25 or even 30 years. That\u2019s a lot of service we have to provide because our customers want it now,\u201d Coleman added.
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\n     In the meantime other challenges include jamming which he referred to as \u201cdifficult cases.\u201d Coleman said while he can\u2019t discuss the specifics, his company is presently working on uplink suppression tests and will unveil his findings on June 10 at an upcoming conference. <\/p>\n

Follow Steve Schuster on Twitter @stevenschuster.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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