[Satellite TODAY 04-27-10] CapRock Government Solutions has expanded its satellite and terrestrial infrastructure to include bandwidth-on-demand to more than 35 major U.S. Department of Defense locations and direct connections at 24 critical U.S. Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) access points, the company announced April 26.
    The terrestrial expansion is part of its DISN Access Transport Services (DATS) contract with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Under DATS, CapRock is contracted to integrate U.S. Defense installations onto the DISN backbone network, interconnecting U.S. military and intelligence facilities throughout the world. Two contracts for the Northeast and Southeast regions of the United States were awarded to CapRock in 2006 to help connect more than 800,000 DISN users. 
    “Our team has installed over 2,500 circuits with another 500 orders currently in process. We’re not just installing T1’s per customer request and calling it a network.  Our backbone is live, it’s powerful and it’s available now,” CapRock Government Solutions Vice President of Operations David Cavossa said in a statement.