SBIR/STTR Research Award
All Optical Terabit Router for Space
Award amount
$99,718Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ULTRA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-13
- Contract end date
- 2009-11-13
- UEI
- XJWHA6PGHM25
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- AF083-191
Research abstract
We propose the development of a low-power, space-worth optical router capable of terabit per second data throughput. An all-optical router would enable allow format-independent optical data transmission, fulfilling the Air Forces vision of legacy systems aggregation. The overall goal is to create an innovate method of routing data between satellite nodes without O-E-O conversion on a connection-less routing architecture. The unique properties of optics enables a novel concept of encoding the router control information on the signal itself, allowing for packet-based switching. BENEFIT: Military application: Extensive applications in advanced military satellite communications. Commercial application: The systems, when implemented, will have significant applications in the advanced commercial satellite market beyond the Galileo or Euro SATCOM market.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Built-In Test Capable Aircraft Sensor and Stores Fiber Optic Interface - Star Coupled Net with BIT
- Multi-Wavelength and Built-in Test Capable Local Area Network Node Packaging
- Built in Test (BIT) Capability for Multi-Mode (MM) Fiber Data Networks
- High-Speed Data Transmission in Multimode Fiber
- Robust Optic Signal Distribution within Enclosures for Aerospace Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced wavelength switched terabit optical router for Space Networks
- Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
- Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
- Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2017). Reported award amounts total $22,990,939. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy