Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima

Overview

The SDR-4000 L-Band Software Defined Radio Terminal is a COTS platform that offers Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communication and system interoperability with the ability to support multiple waveforms including BGAN, APCO P25, FM3TR, WNW OFDM PHY, and more. The SDR-4000 L-Band Software Defined Radio Terminal is fully software-reconfigurable, allowing development effort, cost and risk to be significantly reduced while minimizing and protecting hardware investment.

Features

• Utilizes Xilinx® Virtex-4™, Texas Instruments TI DSP and Freescale™ general purpose processing technology
• Separate data path and control bus ideal for wireless modem applications requiring low latency deterministic operation
• External Serial (RS232/422), Gigabit Ethernet, and General Purpose I/O interfaces
• Inmarsat BGAN SDR Waveform is SCA v2.2.2 compliant

Benefits

• A fully software-defined commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) platform that supports the Inmarsat BGAN
  Network
• Supports other SATCOM and terrestrial applications
• Allows for global, on-demand Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communication with guaranteed data rates
• Reduce time-to-deployment using a fully configured COTS platform
• Substantially reduce waveform development and porting costs
• Improve system interoperability with a single terminal that supports several communications systems
• Easily integrate with external COTS and custom RF front ends through analog IF interface
• Reduce total cost of ownership by minimizing the need for hardware upgrades and allowing future
  updates in the field via software
• Other RF interfaces are available on the SDR-4000 platform including APCO P-25, WNW OFDM PHY, FM3TR, SINCGARS, SRW EW PHY, and more

Applications

• Commercial Satellite Communications gateways, terminals, and hubs
• Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) gateways, terminals, and hubs
• Tactical Military Communications (MILCOM) – ground vehicular, airborne, shipborne, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
• Satellite backhaul for public safety networks
• VSAT terminal and waveform development

Learn how BGAN, the mobile satellite service that offers on-demand voice and data with guaranteed rates virtually anywhere on the globe, can be used in a rugged, software-reconfigurable terminal.

View a recording of our webcast presentation, BGAN Satellite Communications in Software Defined Radio.