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Air Force

Army CERDEC Leads Breakthrough Effort To Increase Satellite Throughput

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

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Defense Department researchers yesterday said they made a giant leap toward increasing satellite throughput by successfully transmitting an unprecedented 1.3 gigabit per second (Gbps) carrier signal via the Wideband Global Satellite early May 19 at the Wahiawa satellite communications, or SATCOM, facility in Hawaii. The Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communication-electronics center, or CERDEC, led the effort, which brought together industry representatives and all the services in collaboration to test the achievable throughput using current and emerging SATCOM capability. High…

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Congress

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