Glowlink
Supports Evaluation of Wideband
Global SATCOM (WGS) Satellite
Payload
March
12, 2008,
Glowlink announced the
successful completion of the
first phase of system deployment
and support for DoD in
preparation for activating live
traffic on the first Wideband
Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1).
The WGS-1 satellite has
been undergoing intense
communications payload testing
and evaluation by the WGS
operational community since
shortly after Boeing turned it
over to the Air Force in January
2008.
Glowlink provided all aspects of
engineering, installation,
training, and logistical support
for a key ground-based system
used during the payload
evaluation.
The system—reinforced with
robust, all-digital spectrum
monitoring technology—consists
of a global network of
next-generation monitoring and
interference detection nodes,
created by Glowlink specifically
for monitoring the WGS fleet of
satellites.
The WGS-1 satellite, launched on
10 October, 2007 is the first in
a fleet of new generation of DoD
wideband communications
satellites to be placed in
orbits between 2007 and 2013,
bringing dramatically increased
bandwidth to the military SATCOM
user community.
