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Demonstrator for Secure Satellite Transmissions Successfully Installed with ESA

Just under 2 years ago, IABG won an invitation to tender from the European Space Agency, ESA, for a study of different mechanisms for the secure transmission of Internet contents via satellite. A part of the study was the specification of a demonstrator, which would verify the study results and make them accessible to a wider public.

Moreover, IABG was commissioned with the realisation of the demonstrator. As part of the project, a testbed was set up, which implemented the secure transmission of different application data from the fields of telemedicine, multimedia streaming, audio and video conferencing and distributed databanks. This transmission can be undertaken selectively via real or simulated networks. The testbed was initially assembled, configured and tested at IABG. Thereafter followed its transport to ESA in Noordwijk, where it was successfully integrated into the ESA test environment on 11. September.

The knowledge obtained from the <link http: telecom.esa.int telecom www object external-link-new-window externen link in neuem>project is included in the business build-up of the IABG business segment Advanced IP Services and Teleport.

Further information on this project is provided by ESA on its Internet site. Our points of contact for this project can be reached under <link mail ein fenster zum versenden der>Advanced-IP@IABG.de.


The Advanced IP Service business segment in Department IK42 deals with the development and provision of innovative Internet services, for example, the new Internet protocol IPv6 and with supporting mobility in the Internet or with secure Internet communications. Besides the terrestrial Internet, Internet access via satellite, as offered by the IABG Teleport to its customers, represents a potential field of application for such innovative Internet services.