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Featured Articles » NASA's Internal Communications Made-in-the-USA Disconnect with Commercial Crew » Dish Tries to Create a Tangible Expression of its Service » What Does Satellite Subscriber Weakness Mean? » Congress Allows Non-Public Safety Entities to Access 700 MHz Broadband Spectrum   Sponsored By: Aricent WEBINAR: Cloud-based Telecom Testing: Why and How Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:00 AM ET/ 8:00 AM PT REGISTER TODAY In this webinar, experts from Aricent will identify the challenges in traditional telecom testing and justify the case for delivering testing competencies through the cloud. They will investigate the limitations overcome by cloud-based testing and present the customer benefits derived from these solutions. An interactive Q&A session will allow attendees to allay their specific fears about cloud-based telecom testing. Additionally, the speakers will also highlight Aricent's platform agnostic cloud-based test tool - the Software Tool for Automated Test Environment (STATE), which accelerates unit testing, subsystem and system integration testing, and regression testing of telecom products and applications. What Attendees will learn: Creating a telecom testing environment on the cloud Challenges addressed by cloud-based telecom testing Customer benefits offered by cloud-based telecom testing Developing robust telecom testing solutions on the cloud   Top Stories » Comtech Telecommunications Wins $1.0 Million Contract to Supply Medium-Power Tri-Band Amplifiers » InSat to Provide Communications Service to Afghanistan Using Newtec's Ka-Band Sat3Play Hub and Terminals » Comtech EF Data's ROAM Protocol and Mitsubishi Antenna System Enhance Connectivity » COMSYS Report Reveals Comtech EF Data Dominates the Single Channel per Carrier Area of Satellite Industry   From The Expert Corner February 28, 2012 U.S. Navy MUOS-1 Satellite Successfully Launched By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor After two weather scrubs, the United States Navy finally got MUOS-1 into orbit on its third try. The communications satellite was launched on Friday, February 24 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 5:15 p.m. EST. MUOS, the Mobile User Objective System, is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system designed to improve ground communications for U.S. military forces on the move. It will provide users 10 times more communications capacity over existing systems, including simultaneous voice, video, and data by leveraging 3G technologies. Data rates of up to 384 kbps “on the move” will be available, with MUOS incorporating IPv4 and IPv6 to enable roaming to IP networks. Lockheed Martin (News - Alert) has the contract for building MUOS, which is designed to replace the legacy Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) system. A total of four MUOS satellites will be put into geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO), along with an on-orbit spare. Each satellite is built using Lockheed’s A2100 bus and is equipped to deliver 16 WCDMA beams. The satellites carry both MUOS WCDMA and legacy UHF SATCOM payloads in order to support both legacy UHF SATCOM terminals and JTRS-compatible terminals... Read More    Featured Videos Satellite as a Service, Yes its True    Featured Resources » Licensing for SaaS Applications: ISVs Take to the Cloud » Making the Case for End-to-End Monitoring in Virtual Environments » SIP Trunks and UC security   TMCnet's Blogs » Is Microsoft Windows Phone Really Faster? » MWC 2012: SPB Shell 3D » Occupy Hits MWC   Featured Channels » Business VoIP » Satellite Optimization » Cloud Communications    SatelliteSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest Satellite News   and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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