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Viasat Dynamic Video Encoding Enhances Satellite Connectivity for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Missions
New Technology Capability Ensures Sensor Data and Bandwidth are Available and Optimized across Global Satellite Footprints and Security Boundaries for
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[{"type":"text","content":"New Technology Capability Ensures Sensor Data and Bandwidth are Available and Optimized across Global Satellite Footprints and Security Boundaries for In-flight Military Operations\n\n\nCARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, announced today the availability of its Viasat Dynamic Video Encoding (DVE) capability, a new satellite communications technology enhancement that optimizes sensor data for military aircraft on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The new DVE capability allows aircraft to optimize their available bandwidth and video transmissions for high-speed, high-quality video feeds from the aircraft. \nIn today's ISR missions, military aircraft often travel long legs from base to objective, where satellite return link data rates can change depending upon the location of the aircraft within the satellite footprint. As the aircraft traverse within a single beam and/or across higher data rate spot beam satellites, they are often unable to adjust sensor data rates to efficiently use the full satellite performance available. Recognizing this limitation, Viasat developed its DVE capability to optimize ISR data feeds based on satellite capability, as well as allowing this configuration-on-the-fly to occur across security boundaries.\nViasat's DVE application will provide:\nVideo quality adaptation: encoder data rates dynamically change to fall within the maximum available return link data rates, enabling optimum use of available bandwidth—beam-edge-to-edge. Bandwidth optimization: enables a communication channel between the Viasat modem and encoder, ensuring baseband applications get the full effect of the bandwidth required for ISR missions. Configuration across security boundaries: the application takes advantage of a third-party Cross Domain Solution (CDS) that enables configuration to update across security boundaries. Additionally, Viasat's DVE functionality can still be used to maximize the data rates, without a crypto requirement. Congestion management: enables communication between the Viasat modem and Quality of Service (QoS)-enabled router, informing the router when bandwidth changes, which is needed to help manage congested links for critical services during beam-to-beam transitions.\"The Viasat DVE capability is game-chang...