ITPC ARABSAT SATELLITE EARTH STATION, BAGHDAD

ITPC ARABSAT SATELLITE EARTH STATION, BAGHDAD

2005

Technology Partners, working with General Dynamics and Commtech, designed and implemented the ArabSat Standard B Earth Station project for the Iraq Telecommunications and Post Company. The earth station was damaged during the war and was part of the Iraq Reconstruction Program.

The ArabSat consortium provides voice communications between all member states. The project, based around an 11 meter Standard B earth station, provided ITPC with 40 E1 (2.048 Mbps, G.703) trunk circuits with at least one E1 circuit for each of the 14 member states.

The system utilizes compression techniques to convert the forty trunk circuits to ten bearer circuits. The bearer circuits are then connected to a microwave system for transmission from the customer demarcation location to the earth station.  This project was completed in August 2005.