MIDAS

Multimedia communications platform for connecting and managing high bandwidth satellite-based wide area networks for public and private carriers, service providers, and enterprise networks, comprising communications equipment, components and test equipment, namely - microwave signal sources, transceivers, frequency converters, digital signal modulators, digital demodulators, burst modems, digital signal processors; communications framing devices, namely, frame relay switches and frame relay circuits; bandwidth management devices, namely, printed circuit board modules, channel banks, channel service unites, data service units, converters, and integrated services digital network terminal adapters; asynchronous transfer mode processing equipment, namely, asynchronous transfer mode switches and edge switches; telecommunications network management hardware; TCP/VIP packet devices, namely, computers and computer programs for use in performing security functions on global computer communications networks, namely, encryption of TCP/VIP traffic on networks