Compact and lightweight satellite earth stations for rapid link provisioning

NTT Labs has developed compact and lightweight satellite earth stations to provide communication links via specially installed public phones and Internet access points in evacuation and disaster response centers in the event of communications being disrupted by disasters and other emergencies. We developed two types´ earth stations. These earth stations are compact and lightweight. They are equipped with functions for automatically capturing and tracking satellites, and for remotely conducting uplink access tests. These functions make it possible to establish links rapidly, and reduce the setup operations that must be done by field workers.