[SatNews] Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) completed a successful demo of its advanced airborne video solution to a key government agency, confirming full D-1 video resolution at air-to-ground user data rates of over 2 Mbps. The Hughes Airborne Video Solution employs the high performance Hughes HX router and HX ExpertNMS, its advanced network management system with a highly intuitive and interactive interface to optimize performance and productivity.
Hughes is building on its commercial aviation broadband offering, thereby facilitating adoption of a COTS-based solution by the airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) community. The demo occurred on Row 44’s flying test-bed aircraft, based out of Camarillo, California, and outfitted with TECOM Industries, Inc. KuStream™ 1000 bi-directional Ku- band antenna, and Streambox’s highly secure video coding and viewing sub-system. Intelsat General provided the communications link for the demonstration via its Horizon-1 satellite located at 127 degrees West.



