How the BGAN Network Emulator + Kratos’ Channel Simulator facilitate cost-efficient security testing

How is it done?

The aircraft is placed inside an RF shielded room (hangar) which allows our client to have complete control of the signal to test what happens to the satellite link when exposed to impairments such as signal degradation, latency, jamming etc.

Horn antennas transmit and receive signals inside the RF shielded room. A Kratos Channel Simulator simulates multiple, combined, and simultaneous distortions to the signals to and from the terminal in the aircraft and a BGAN Network Emulator from GateHouse emulates the BGAN core system in order to set up a connection.

The BGAN Network Emulator setup from Kratos and GateHouse brings the BGAN satellite network into a test bench, allowing our client to simulate a satellite connection for a BGAN, FBB or SBB terminal.

This results in the ability for our client to do end-to-end test of their connected aircraft under very difficult radio link conditions.

Impairments such as signal degradation, latency or jamming constitute a major problem, and it might be necessary to test the system’s robustness. The GateHouse BNE + Kratos Channel Simulator setup can be used preventively to emulate impairments to discover how much noise the signal can endure until it becomes insufficient for its purpose.