Cutting Edge Technology for Military and Government

SkyEdge IV Aquarius for Military & Government is an ultra-high-performance family of VSATs providing security forces with ruggedized terminals that can be deployed on vehicles or carried in a backpack, ensuring seamless connectivity for both on-the-move and on-the-pause missions. It further delivers reliable beyond line of sight (BLoS) connectivity between command and tactical levels, allowing a seamless flow of information. Our resilient networks provide true interoperability, drastically reducing the time between decision, implementation and evaluation. In addition, Gilat’s low SWaP systems allow military and border patrol teams to exploit the full potential of long-endurance missions with airborne, maritime and land-based communications.

The Aquarius VSAT family is designed to provide uninterrupted service, supporting next-generation software-defined satellites. Aquarius enables seamless operation, “make before break” NGSO satellites handover, switching between GEO and NGSO or between different GEO satellites. To provide continuity of service for these use cases, Aquarius is equipped with dual transmit/receive interfaces and fast adaptive reconfiguration capabilities on both the forward and return channels supporting satellite on-the-fly changes.

The VSATs exhibit ultra-high processing capacity, achieving >2Gbps aggregated throughput and high packets-per-second processing.

SkyEdge IV Aquarius family military-grade VSATs offers secure, highly reliable broadband C4I satellite communications for the net-centric battlefield, helping to ensure information superiority for troops on the ground.

Benefits

• Secure communications – FIPS 140-3 Level 3, TRANSEC end-to-end solutions for C4I systems based on robust VSAT applications
• Generic Modem Interface (GMI) API enabling secure sovereign services over NGSO
• Ultra-high throughput and high PPS family of VSATs. > 2Gbps aggregated throughput and high packets-per-second processing
• Designed for ultra-high data intensive applications such as: COTM, COTP, UAV, AFV, Manpack
• Software-defined programmable VSAT for seamless operation over legacy and next generation flexible satellites
• High-performance Air Interface – DVB-S2X and Gilat TDMA and Elastic-SCPC (eSCPC) with very low SNR (VLSNR) ModCods
• Open standard interfaces for Antenna (OpenAMIP) and BUC (OpenBMIP)
• MIL-SPEC hardware design with Low SWaP systems to exploit the full potential of long endurance missions with airborne, maritime and land-based communications
• MEF Layer-2/L3 services

The Aquarius family of VSATs include:

• Aquarius e-M: card-based solution, based on the commercial Aquarius-e
• Aquarius Pro-M: 19’ rackmount solution, based on the commercial Aquarius Pro, hardened for military and government purposes

The Aquarius family of VSATs for Military & Government is compatible with SkyEdge IV.