Compact earth stations, hubs for energy industry expanding

Journal Article · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Pipe Line Industry; (United States)

OSTI ID:5603216

Shimabukuro, T ^[1]

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1. Telecommunications Systems and Analysis, GTE Spacenet Corp., McLean, VA (US)

That paper reports that advances in gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology, monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) and large scale integrated (VLSF) circuits, have contributed to the mass production of very reliable small aperture terminals (VSATs). Less publicized, but equally important to multinational energy organizations, are recent developments in compact earth station design and solid-state hubs for VSAT networks made possible by the new technology. Many applications are suited for the energy industry that involve compact earth station terminals and hubs. The first group of applications describes the use of GTE's ACES earth station for the Zaire Gulf Oil Co. in Zaire and for AMOCO in Trinidad. The second group of applications describes the compact hub for VSAT networks, which could potentially have a number of data communication uses in the energy industry, such as, IBM/SNA, X.25, or supervisory control an data acquisition (SCADA) applications.

• OSTI ID: 5603216
• Journal Information: Pipe Line Industry; (United States), Journal Name: Pipe Line Industry; (United States) Vol. 75:2; ISSN 0032-0145; ISSN PLINA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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