Globalstar will standardize on TIBCO Software’s advanced messaging software to run its Satellite Operations Control Centers (SOCCs), the hub from which Globalstar’s constellation of satellites are controlled.
Under terms of the agreement, Globalstar will use TIBCO’s TIB(R)/Rendezvous(TM) middleware technology to enhance the speed, efficiency and scalability of operations that control and monitor the entire satellite network and to ensure the proper functioning of individual satellites.
Globalstar is a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-based telecommunications system that will offer high quality global telephony, data, fax, and position location services to areas currently underserved by existing wireline and cellular telecommunications systems. More than 40 of the 48 Globalstar satellites will be launched in 1998, with service beginning in 1999.
“Real-time information exchange in our satellite control centers
will be critical to the future success of the Globalstar system,” said
John M. Klineberg, Globalstar’s executive vice president of satellite
constellation establishment. “Our use of TIBCO proven messaging
software will allow us to provide our customers around the world with
a flexible and reliable telecommunications system that meets their
individual needs.”
The decision to use TIBCO’s messaging technology in the control
centers was made after simulated tests indicated TIBCO software
outperformed other technology solutions, providing a high-speed,
highly scaleable information distribution framework.
“TIBCO’s technology has been proving itself for twelve years in
the harshest and most innovative IT environments around the world,
from Wall Street trading rooms to semiconductor manufacturing sites.
It is only fitting that Globalstar will be using TIBCO’s reliable and
efficient technology to build the communications infrastructure of the
next century,” said Vivek RanadivE, chairman and CEO, TIBCO Software.
“We are excited to be a part of Globalstar’s innovative
telecommunications project.”
Satellite Operations Control Centers (SOCCs)
Globalstar’s two SOCCs, located in San Jose and El Dorado Hills, near Sacramento, California, control the entire Globalstar satellite network. These control centers monitor telemetry data from Globalstar satellites, ensuring their proper functioning and the performance of the overall system. TIB/Rendezvous ensures that data is routed, in real-time, across SOCC terminals so that on-orbit satellites can be monitored and any problems detected and corrected immediately.
About TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO’s software is now a de facto standard for enterprise-wide
event-driven computing in finance, manufacturing, construction,
electronic commerce and other industries. Dozens of companies have
endorsed TIBCO software for Internet/intranet applications. Among
those companies that have announced alliances with TIBCO are: IBM,
Cisco Systems, 3Com, Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun
Microsystems, Informix, i2 Technologies, and Deloitte and Touche.
TIBCO is an international market leader and pioneer in software
tools and services for building distributed applications that provide
event-driven and real-time information exchange throughout the
enterprise. The company developed and patented publish/subscribe
technologies that allow for interapplication communications across
heterogeneous environments.
Based in Palo Alto, Calif., TIBCO Software, Inc. was formed in
1997 from TIBCO Inc., a company which first became prominent by
supplying information management systems to financial trading rooms.
TIBCO Inc. was acquired in 1994 by Reuters Group PLC, the international news and financial information services group. TIBCO Software is majority-owned by Reuters.
