Harris Corporation Chooses Solace Systems as Messaging Provider for Weather Satellite Ground System

Messaging Platform to Enable Mission Critical Communication across Distributed Satellite Ground System

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solace Systems, the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, today announced that Harris Corporation has selected Solace’s Unified Messaging Platform to enable the communication of mission critical data as part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series (GOES-R) program. Developed jointly by NASA and NOAA, the project will be an important tool to support detection and observation of weather, thereby leading to better and more accurate forecasts.

Solace message routers will enable the low latency, high availability messaging backbone of the satellite ground system. Harris chose Solace after an extensive evaluation, in which Solace was shown to improve messaging throughput and latency while providing a fault tolerant platform. Additionally Solace’s technology was shown to ease integration effort by providing a hardware appliance rather than the traditional software solution.

The first launch of a GOES-R series satellite is scheduled for 2015.

About Solace Systems

Solace Systems (www.solacesystems.com) is the leading provider of middleware appliances. Middleware, which has historically been software-based, enables disparate enterprise applications and information systems to share information. By performing this function in purpose-built hardware, Solace products accelerate information flow while reducing the cost and complexity of IT infrastructure. Solace products have been successfully deployed by global leaders in many segments of the financial services market (buy side firms, investment banks, exchanges, and financial information providers) and other markets such as government, telecommunications, transportation and logistics, and utility computing.