Joint STARS To Receive Expand Networks Acceleration

Expand Networks has announced Northrop Grumman and the United States Air Force have integrated their Accelerator 4820 and Accelerator 6940 into the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) communication system to provide application acceleration and bandwidth optimization. Expand Networks Accelerators enhance the functionality of the Joint STARS BLOS communications architecture by providing the Beyond Line of Sight system with accelerated WAN performance to minimize bandwidth requirements for Internet protocol (IP) traffic. The Accelerators mitigate the effects of latency and ensure that all applications receive adequate capacity. Optimization is achieved through the implementation of Expand Networks’ patented byte-level caching, compression, Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS-based) TCP acceleration and Quality of Service capabilities. The E-8C Joint STARS is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. As a battle management and command and control asset, the E-8C can support the full spectrum of roles and missions from peacekeeping operations to major theater war—Roseland, New Jersey