Tachyon Networks (News - Alert) successfully delivered the aXiom 7300 Integrated Airborne Network Solution for comms-on-the-move to Sierra Nevada Corporation. The comprehensive system has been operational in Afghanistan since April. The system comes complete with on-board hardware, ground infrastructure, space segment and also network management and monitoring. Sierra Nevada Corporation is in an agreement with Lockheed Martin (News - Alert) who supplies the aXiom 7300 to the US Military. The aXiom 7300 is used on their airborne ISR fleet.

In a release, Michael Dugan of Lockheed Martin said that “Lockheed Martin is pleased to enable our customer with advanced technologies such as the aXiom 7300. We take pride in supplying the US Military with the best communications systems available on aircraft, and SNC, with Tachyon as their satellite systems supplier, have proved themselves the leader in delivering integrated comms-on-the-move systems.”

Tachyon incorporated the aXiom 9300 with an embedded iDirect (News - Alert) Satellite Router Board, a Mobile Satellite Antenna Subsystem, and an Inertial Reference Unit in response to the needs for a fully-managed solution that could deliver upload speeds of up to15 Mbps off an aircraft in flight. To meet the needs of the US Military, Tachyon additionally obtained space segment capacity and built ground infrastructure.  The aXiom 7300 Integrated Airborne Network Solution is the result of this effort.

Currently, the aXiom 7300 is deployed and operating regular ISR missions. During these missions, full-motion video is being streamed from aircraft together with Communications Intelligence and Signal Intelligence and displayed on the ground in real time on HD monitoring terminals. The aXiom 7300 is can deliver up to 15 Mbps data rates per aircraft. Tachyon’s technology agnostic approach to Airborne COTM systems is amply exhibited by the fact that it manages the network services for both the aXiom 7300 and the prior system. Tachyon’s flexibility for operating mixed hardware systems over a managed network service remains effortless.

Ken Puckett, vice president of Logistics and Field Service Integrated Systems at Sierra Nevada Corporation, said that, “With the aXiom 7300, Tachyon has delivered a solution that allows for upload speeds in excess of the prior solution and has managed it in a backwards compatible manner. We are extremely pleased to enable Lockheed Martin and their US Military customers with Tachyon’s advanced services, which allows real-time delivery of mission critical information, including full-motion video, from aircraft to NetOps and troops on the ground. The end user customer has told us that the video they are seeing through aXiom is the best available on current systems.”

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