Kratos’ Monics® Enterprise Addresses New Satellite RF Interference Monitoring Challenges in an Increasingly Congested Spac...
September 08 2016 - 7:02AM
Intelsat Selects Monics Enterprise to Monitor its
Entire Fleet, IncludingNew EpicNG High Performance
Satellites
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a
leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today the
release of Monics® Enterprise, one of two new additions to its
Monics family of industry leading satellite carrier monitoring and
interference mitigation solutions.
Monics Enterprise was developed to provide
satellite and network operators with a solution to the increasingly
complex process of monitoring and detecting Radio Frequency
Interference (RFI) created by hundreds of Geostationary Orbit (GEO)
satellites, thousands of emerging small sats and millions of VSAT
terminals. It includes new features to control user access to
applications and space segments, as well as an exclusive map-based
display of global satellite operations.
Monics Enterprise provides advanced User Access
Control (UAC) capabilities to restrict or enable application access
based on Windows authentication to more than 35 monitoring
application features. This enables more robust monitoring
strategies and new workforce processes, especially when centrally
managing distributed environments. UAC can also deliver new
levels of service satisfaction by enabling satellite operators to
provide their customers with visibility into the space segment
resources they are using. Advanced security features means that
Monics customers can limit the real-time visibility of their
clients to their own space segments.
Additionally, Monics Enterprise’s exclusive
global map-based display of satellite operations greatly reduces
the time between recognition of an issue and its resolution, and
optimizes workforce productivity by highlighting beams as they
overlay on the ground in relation to the location of a Monics
monitoring site. This delivers easy, one-click actions to hide and
restore all map elements from view. Context menus are accessible
from affected beams that facilitate rapid alarm filtering and
direct access to signals of interest.
Intelsat, a long term Monics NET user, recently
began using Monics Enterprise to monitor performance and detect
interference across its entire fleet, including the company’s new
EpicNG high-performance, next-generation satellites. The
EpicNG platform is an innovative approach to satellite and
network architecture utilizing C-, Ku- and Ka-bands; wide beams,
spot beams, and frequency reuse technology to provide a host of
customer-centric benefits.
According to Butch Philbrick, VP Network
Operations, “Intelsat’s growing satellite fleet of Fixed Service
Satellites (FSS), High Throughput Satellites (HTS) and hybrid wide
beam/spot beam satellites presents us with more complex resource
management challenges, requiring greater insights. Monics
Enterprise helps us master those challenges with greater control of
our workforce processes and better visualization into real time
operations.”
For more information about Monics Enterprise,
please visit:
http://www.kratosnetworks.com/products/rf-management/carrier-monitoring/monics-enterprise
Kratos’ Monics family of products has long been
recognized as the industry’s leading carrier monitoring solutions,
providing centralized RF spectrum monitoring and advanced
interference detection, including carrier-under-carrier detection
and characterization. A highly scalable system, Monics is deployed
in hundreds of locations around the world.
Separately today, Kratos also announced the
newest release of Monics Net version 10.5 the family’s flagship
platform, and Monics 200, a fully featured, cost effective sensor
that solves the challenges of HTS and spot beam monitoring. For
more information please
visit:http://www.kratosnetworks.com/products/rf-management/carrier-monitoring
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
(Nasdaq:KTOS) is a mid-tier government contractor at the forefront
of the Department of Defense’s Third Offset Strategy. Kratos
is a leading technology, intellectual property and proprietary
product and solution company focused on the United States and its
allies’ national security. Kratos is the industry leader in
high performance unmanned aerial drone target systems used to test
weapon systems and to train the warfighter, and is a provider of
high performance unmanned combat aerial systems for force
multiplication and amplification. Kratos is also an industry
leader in satellite communications, microwave electronics, cyber
security/warfare, missile defense and combat systems. Kratos
has primarily an engineering and technically oriented work force of
approximately 2,800. Substantially all of Kratos' work is performed
on a military base, in a secure facility or at a critical
infrastructure location. Kratos' primary end customers are National
Security related agencies. News and information are available at
www.KratosDefense.com
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