Kratos Breaks Gigabit Barrier with OpenSpace™ Virtualized Wideband Receivers for Earth Observation Missions
19 October 2021 - 11:00PM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that
it has broken the gigabit throughput barrier with its OpenSpace™
virtualized wideband receivers delivering over a gigabit per second
performance running solely on commercially available, off-the-shelf
x86-based computers. This achievement drastically lowers the cost
of downlinks, while raising performance for Earth Observation (EO)
and Remote Sensing (RS) missions.
More and more high bandwidth EO and RS data is
being beamed from satellites and the infrastructure on the ground
must keep up. This is particularly driven by the challenge of EO/RS
applications that rapidly download data on the fly during the short
time periods when satellites are over the ground system, as well as
the need to process the data as fast as possible.
Kratos breaking the gigabit milestone
demonstrates that the high throughput required by EO/RS satellites
can be achieved by software receivers running on x86-based general
purpose computers that do not require specialized hardware such as
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGAs) or Graphics Processing Units
(GPU). This level of performance demonstrates that operations can
be streamlined by leveraging virtualized solutions or deploying in
the cloud without the need for expensive hardware acceleration. It
also showcases the performance of Kratos’ OpenSpace software
receivers, which are taking advantage of the standard DVB-S2
waveform to make much more efficient use of the spectrum.
The software receiver speeds were achieved by
two different virtual receivers that are part of the OpenSpace
family: OpenSpace ORX and OpenSpace quantumRX. OpenSpace ORX is
deployed as an integrated part of the OpenSpace Platform for highly
dynamic operations to provide fully orchestrated and automated
end-to-end EO and RS mission downlinks. OpenSpace quantumRX
provides greater agility at the device level by replacing
traditional hardware with individual virtualized products. Compared
to today’s traditional hardware infrastructure, these software
receivers offer much faster deployment times, smaller physical
footprints, highly optimized resource utilization, and scalability
on demand.
“It’s been difficult for many in the industry to
envision a virtualized software receiver handling the growing level
of performance needed by Earth Observation missions using only
off-the-shelf x86-based computers,” said Christopher Boyd, Senior
Director of Product Management from Kratos. “With OpenSpace
quantumRX and OpenSpace ORX we have enhanced our support for the
DVB-S2 waveform and performance in software, achieving greater than
1.2 Gbps throughput at 32 APSK on a 270 Symbol per second RF
carrier running on x86-based generic compute.”
OpenSpace is a family of solutions that enable
the digital transformation of satellite ground systems to become a
more dynamic and powerful part of the space network. The OpenSpace
family includes OpenSpace SpectralNet® for digital IF, OpenSpace
quantum™ for individual virtualized products, and the OpenSpace
Platform for fully dynamic, service-oriented, and orchestrated
satellite operations.
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
(NASDAQ:KTOS) develops and fields transformative, affordable
technology, platforms and systems for United States National
Security related customers, allies and commercial enterprises.
Kratos is changing the way breakthrough technology for these
industries are rapidly brought to market through proven commercial
and venture capital backed approaches, including proactive research
and streamlined development processes. At Kratos, affordability is
a technology and we specialize in unmanned systems, satellite
communications, cyber security/warfare, microwave electronics,
missile defense, hypersonic systems, training, combat systems and
next generation turbo jet and turbo fan engine development. For
more information go to www.KratosDefense.com.
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