Glowing Success For Glowlink With WGSMS

Glowlink has announced the Wideband Global Spectrum Monitoring System (WGSMS) the company designed has begun to actively monitor traffic carried on the first US DoD Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1). This ushers in a new era of wideband satellite communications monitoring and control. WGS-1, which went operational on April 15, 2008, is the first in a new generation of wide bandwidth DoD communications satellites and is the most powerful in its inventory for long-haul communications. “WGSMS is the first system that is capable of monitoring the new WGS satellites. The system is used to routinely measure the spectral signature of more than 4.5 GHz of WGS bandwidth in just a few minutes,” says Daniel Hannan, Chief of Wideband SATCOM Operations Support, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command. Glowlink is under contract to continue product enhancement and technical support for the WGSMS as the WGS network evolves and expands to meet the crucial tactical, strategic, and operational needs of the US and its allies—Los Altos, California