Compass. Photo: Kratos

The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) has selected Compass, Kratos’ end-to-end network management product, to support its expanding satellite fleet ground operations. The Compass network Monitoring and Control (M&C) will help Arabsat scale its international operations by automating, and more effectively managing, the network functions of its ground operations, according to Kratos. Compass will be deployed at the company’s teleports in Saudi Arabia and Tunis.

Compass offers Arabsat the opportunity to develop its own network procedures according to their operations concept. “Optimization of network performance and capability to scale up the monitoring of ground assets were two of Arabsat’s key objectives. Compass will monitor all Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) and Carrier System Monitoring (CSM) Earth stations of the Arabsat satellite fleet,” said Bruno Dupas, president of Kratos’ operation in France, which delivered the system to Arabsat.

Kratos will also provide Arabsat with Skyminer, its big data storage and analytics engine, which will be used to archive all the data collected by Compass. Skyminer will eventually archive Arabsat’s Command and Control (C2) data as well, providing Arabsat overall system awareness and analytics capability from a single consolidated archive storage system, Kratos stated.