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A concept image of the Viasat 2 satellite.
Australia and the ADF on how they might approach the 9102 program and rather than buying a snapshot of a different technology point on this trajectory continuum. We’re encouraging a philosophy of buying satellite communications as a service, like we do our mobile phone technology”.
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The company is also well aware of the AIC and sovereign concerns that Australia has in this context.
“It needs to be a sovereign capability with an empowered sovereign presence that has the ability to run out with the network on an unimpeded basis to make sure that service is uninterrupted, regardless of changes in geo- political landscape,” Peterman confirmed.
The system also has massive amounts of protection baked in from the start of the design process with both Peterson and lo- cal Viasat Australia General Manager Gov- ernment and Defence Col Cooper explain their cyber team concept.
“Our Viasat cyber security operations centre is a real key component of our inte- grated cyber security model which actu- ally today harvests and collects and pro- cesses over 30 terabytes of metadata every single day,” Peterson said to ADM. “We see over 4.5 billion individual cyber events on our network each 24 hour period, and as a result our CSOC (cyber security operations centre), and our deep cyber
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