ND SatCom Enhances Security and Reliability for All SKYWAN 7000 Networks

Immenstaad, Germany, May 19, 2016–Driven by demand from high-security defense customers, ND SatCom released new software for both FIPS/WGS and non-FIPS systems to all customers.

Addressing the needs of our North American defense industry customers, ND SatCom enhanced the FIPS-certified software release V7.250.10 to now give full support for multiple MF-TDMA demodulators. In addition, this new release -  V7.250.14 - now supports antennas from various COTM antenna manufacturers. Our sales channel Airbus DS Government Solutions performed intensive testing and recently delivered to the first COTM customer.

These feature enhancements, together with the cross-strapping functionality, allow for not only operating meshed networks for worldwide missions with stations in the respective home country but also mixing fixed and mobile SKYWAN terminals in one highly secure network. This software release is designed to run on the SKYWAN 7000/2x70 FIPS 140-2 Level 3 (tamper-proof) verified hardware. When used with the WGS hardware option, these SKYWAN 7000/2x70 units are also verified for WGS use.

In parallel, ND SatCom released identical software V7.200.90 (SKYWAN 7000/2x70) and V1.200.59 (SKYWAN 1070) without the FIPS extension. This software is for general use to all commercial and governmental customers.

FIPS software requires special hardware to run. Operational networks benefit from increased robustness and stability of the new commercial software releases V7.200.90 and V1.200.59.

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