User's Guide

MBS-LP User Guide Document MBUD-0087v0.2
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Customer Hosts connect to the Data Hub via Frame, VPN, or leased-line. The Data Hub consists
of:
• Network Operations Support System (NOSS): manages the modems on the WAW
network
• Wireless IP Gateway (WIPG) that connects to the ISPD and AWS GPRS networks and
controls data sent between the Customer Hosts and MBS2-LPs.
• ISPD equipment
The Wireless Matrix-owned and operated ISPD Network consists:
• Primary Data Hub equipment located at Wireless Matrix in Reston, Virginia
• Secondary Data Hub equipment located in Ashburn, Virginia
• Communications Ground Segment (CGS) located at Mobile Satellite Ventures in Reston,
Virginia
• MSAT-2 geostationary satellite. MSAT-2 covers the United States and its coastal waters
as well as Canada
On the client side, a CSC device connects to the MBS2-LP. The MBS2-LP routes messages
over the Wireless Matrix ISPD Satellite network or the AWS GPRS network, depending on which
network the MBS2-LP determines to be the “Active Network”. The MBS2-LP is also responsible
for notifying the WIPG when its Active Network changes.
Wireless Matrix
Wide Area Wireless (WAW)
Wireless Matrix
Data Hub Network Components
Mobile Satellite
Ventures (MSV)
AT&T
Frame Relay
Location/
Network
Register
Wireless
IP Gateway
(WIPG)
Network Operations
Supprt System (NOSS)
ISPD
Processors
MSV-Reston
MSAT-1,2
X.25
MBS-2
802.11b
CSC
Frame Relay
Internet
Leased Line
Hosts
Hosts
Hosts
AT&T Wireless
Services (AWS)
GPRS
Figure 2: WAW Network