ViaSat Enerlinks Digital Transceiver Interoperates With Analog Video Transmitters

EnerLinks™III digital signal processing receives intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) analog video transmitted from UAVs and other platforms that use legacy frequency modulation

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Enerdyne division of ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has added a new operating mode for its EnerLinksIII Ground Modem Transceiver (GMT) that enables it to interoperate with airborne vehicles that use analog FM technology to transmit NTSC, PAL, or RS170 sensor video over a line-of-sight, air-to-ground communications link. While unmanned system programs such as Shadow and Predator operate with analog ISR data links, digital EnerLinks technology has been deployed in hundreds of advanced data links for use in classified and other surveillance applications.

“The video ISR industry is only just beginning a transition from analog to digital waveform, so it is imperative that new digital systems can receive signals from the installed base of legacy analog systems”

“The video ISR industry is only just beginning a transition from analog to digital waveform, so it is imperative that new digital systems can receive signals from the installed base of legacy analog systems,” said Steve Gardner, Enerdyne general manager. “We also designed the EnerLinksIII GMT to be backwards compatible with prior EnerLinks systems to enable our customers to operate in both the legacy analog and the more advanced digital worlds.”

Because the EnerLinksIII system is software programmable, it can adapt to new digital waveforms as the DoD expands its requirements for digital interoperability beyond common data link (CDL), such as the anticipated digital data link (DDL) for small unmanned systems.

EnerLinks is used by DRS Technologies to upgrade its Sentry and Neptune unmanned aerial system (UAS). Recently Insitu announced the use of EnerLinks for its future Integrator and Scan Eagle UAS. To date Insitu has shipped over 1,000 Scan Eagles.

Enerdyne will be demonstrating this new product feature under the ViaSat canopy at the AUVSI 5^th biennial flight demonstration at Webster Field in Patuxent River on August 10.

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The Enerdyne division of ViaSat, based in El Cajon, CA, provides digital video data link systems for unmanned and manned airborne and other mobile platforms within the defense and intelligence industries and also provides advanced technologies in digital video compression and high performance, ultra reliable RF transport.

About ViaSat (www.viasat.com)

ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies and products to the U.S. government; and is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services. ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems. ViaSat is based in Carlsbad, CA, has major locations in Duluth, GA, and Germantown, MD (Comsat Laboratories division), and has additional field offices and service centers worldwide.

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