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ViaSat Calls on Radisys Expertise to Develop ATCA-Based Satellite Broadband Infrastructure
2 February 2012
Radisys and Viasat announced a collaboration to develop an ATCA-based Satellite Modem Termination System (SMTS). ViaSat selected Radisys’ integrated ATCA platform solution and leveraged its engineering services to develop the SMTS in less than two years from concept to deployment.
To
keep
up
with
advancements
in
satellite
technology
and
support
its
new
high-capacity
Ka-band
satellite,
now
in
service
over
Europe
and
North
America,
ViaSat
needed
to
design
an
entirely
new
SMTS,
a
system
that
aggregates
uplink
and
downlink
traffic
traveling
between
satellites
and
end-users.
In
order
to
meet
this
aggressive
timeline,
ViaSat
chose
Radisys’
ATCA
platform
with
pre-integrated
middleware
and
commercial
off-the-shelf
(COTS)
blades.
Although
the
majority
of
the
design
was
based
on
Radisys’
ATCA
blades,
ViaSat
also
needed
to
design
ATCA-compatible
blades
to
address
unique
functions
in
its
system.
Radisys
provided
its
design
consulting
services,
backed
by
significant
investment
in
R&D
and
industry-leading
expertise
in
the
development
of
ATCA
solutions,
to
help
ViaSat
develop
the
custom
ATCA
boards
and
complete
the
middleware
integration
in-house.
ViaSat
leveraged
Radisys’
valuable
intellectual
property
in
ATCA
in
order
to
focus
its
own
R&D
funds
on
its
core
competency,
application
software.
The
COTS
approach
enabled
an
integrated
platform
with
not
only
the
switching,
packet
processing,
compute
functionalities
and
ViaSat
developed
hardware,
but
also
the
platform
software
and
middleware
needed
to
give
the
maximum
head
start.
“In
addition
to
having
all
the
necessary
ATCA
components
on
hand,
Radisys
had
the
ability
and
expertise
to
accelerate
our
custom
board
design
and
address
our
middleware
concerns,”
said
Jeff
Crosby,
vice
president
of
commercial
broadband,
ViaSat.
“We
embarked
on
this
development
with
an
aggressive
schedule
tied
to a
satellite
launch
and
we
are
glad
to
report
that
the
SMTS
is
now
deployed
and
successfully
carrying
traffic
to
our
customers.”
“While
the
Radisys
ATCA
platform
has
been
well
designed
and
field-proven
for
accelerating
our
customers’
network
development
time-to-market,
our
ability
and
willingness
to
collaborate
closely
with
ViaSat
to
share
our
years
of
expertise
is a
unique
value-add
in
the
industry,”
said
Venkataraman
Prasannan,
general
manager,
ATCA,
Radisys.
“Our
goal
is
to
help
our
customers
shorten
their
time
to
money.”
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