Vt Idirect, Inc.

Intelsat Corporation

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization

Antoine R Naaman

Joseph Jude Boone

Peng Zhao

Brian G Henderson

Jean-Pierre G Bourgon

Andrew J Lopatin

Sima Aftahi

Jean-Pierre Bourgon

Alexandre Olimpiew

A satellite communication system includes a global bandwidth enforcer that allocates bandwidth from the global bandwidth pool in accordance with a group service plan having a predetermined geographic scope. The system further includes an allocation of bandwidth from the one or more channels of the one or more beams of a first satellite in accordance with the group service plan. The system further includes a second satellite access station that receives an allocation of bandwidth from the one or more channels of the one or more beams of the second satellite in accordance with the group service plan. The system further includes a first sub-network associated with the first satellite access having a coverage area in the predetermined geographic scope of the group service plan, where the first sub-network receives an allocation of bandwidth from the first satellite access station in accordance with the group service plan.

Method and apparatus for global bandwidth management

A burst tone range processing system for determining the distance between a ranging station and a signal re-transmitting target device, generates a burst tone signal of finite duration and transmits the signal along a delay transmission path from the ranging station to the target and along a reference transmission path within the ranging station. The transmitted signals are received from the reference and delay paths and assigned time tags. The signals are then correlated and the time tags assigned to correlated signals are compared.

Burst tone range processing system and method

A command modulation system receives commands from a plurality of input sources, some local and some remote, and routes the commands to a plurality of commanded devices, which may be satellites. By use of the input sources, a user configures digital signal processors located in each of a plurality of modulation channels so that the channels have the desired modulation parameters. In this way, the system can be made to command a plurality of different types of commanded devices.

Command modulation system having command generator unit for commanding a

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Antoine R Naaman