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Mark Roseberry will be teaching two short courses on Telemetry over IP

Mark Roseberry will be teaching two short courses on Telemetry over IP at this year’s ITC (International Telemetering Conference). The conference will be October 21-24th in Las Vegas, at Bally’s Hotel and Convention Center.

The full day course will be Monday, October 21st. This course covers current approaches and capabilities for transporting PCM telemetry over an IP network (TMoIP), including discussion of the benefits and limitations of this technology. An introduction and review of essential network and PCM telemetry topics including the OSI network model, practical implementation considerations and topologies, and associated TMoIP PCM formats and network protocols is included.

The three key RCC IRIG standards for TMoIP are described: IRIG 218 and IRIG 106 Chapter 10 over UDP, and iNET. Interactive and scripted setup, configuration, status, and dia

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NetAcquire Corporation Announces New Real-Time Media Transcoder Option

Now with the Media Transcoder Option you can configure a NetAcquire server for real-time streaming video processing, archiving, and distribution.

The NetAcquire Media Transcoder Option allows a NetAcquire server to process incoming still images and motion video. This option supports transcoding (decoding and re-encoding) images and video to different formats.

Media transcoding leverages the data processing capabilities of the Data Flow Engine and is seamlessly integrated with other Data Flow Engine components, including the decommutator and CCSDS demultiplexer. In fact, transcoding can be added to any data flow instance using the Media Transcoder component.

Video output can then be viewed simultaneously by multiple video clients using MissionView™ application software, a web browser or standal

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NetAcquire Corporation Announces New Key Features in versions 1.3 and 1.4 MissionView

MissionView offers more with powerful and advanced real-time graphical display and control applications.

NetAcquire Corporation announced today that MissionView 1.3 and 1.4 have added valuable new features to MissionView. Some of these new features are:

  1. Real-time geographic map displays now include vehicle/target flight and ground tracks.
  2.  New powerful configuration and commanding of NetAcquire server operation is available from MissionView widgets.
  3. Auto server discovery lets you automatically discover live servers through discovery announcements.
  4. Quasonix RDMS receiver monitoring and control works seamlessly with the MissionView interface.

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NetAcquire Announces Mission Critical TMOIP Over Impossible Networks

NetAcquire® Corporation announced today that it has extended the capabilities of their lineup of market leading real-time mission-critical TMoIP systems. This is now possible with the addition of advanced support for communication over “impossible” networks, those where guaranteed delivery of IP multicast data to multiple nodes in the network, reliable multicast, is a particular challenge.

This new NetAcquire Telemetry over IP capability offers a powerful forward error correction option that can recover lost packets even on very poor networks.

The system has been successfully tested on simulated poor quality networks that randomly dropped as many as one out of every three packets – until now, a truly impossible network condition. A system that can operate without data loss under such extreme conditions is ideal for mission-critical applications that must cope with challeng

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NetAcquire® Corporation Announces a New Collection of Universal I/O Interface Options

NetAcquire® Corporation announced today a new collection of universal I/O interface options for serial signal connections. These new I/O interfaces offer configurable signal levels and connectors, and enhance NetAcquire’s “connect anything to anything” interface approach. The flexibility to reduce the rack space needed to a bare minimum is now available. Chassis back panels can now be configured to match exact signaling needs, even in 2U form factors.

The TTL-compatible, BNC I/O interface version includes highly optimized signal conditioning with tuned transmission line impedances. Input hysteresis retains signal integrity at edge frequencies in excess of 10 GHz.

Faster system integration is achievable using newly available software-programmable line termination. Each channel can be individually set to quickly match a site’s existing cabling impedance, eliminating the signal integrity problems associated with fixed single value termination typical with some equipment.

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NetAcquire® Corporation Announces Super-Computer Telemetry Processing

The future of high-performance network telemetry processing is here

 NetAcquire Corporation announced today that it has extended their lineup of market leading real-time telemetry data processing systems to include a virtualized Super-Computer telemetry data processing system capable of processing in excess of 1 billion decommutated parameters per second in an extremely low-latency deterministic real-time software environment. All the decommutators run in protected, cyber-security hardened virtual operating environments with end-user security, access control and auditing. Telemetry Over IP (TMoIP) applications are now able to handle massive numbers of mission parameters in real-time including full floating point polynomial engineering unit conversion.

NetAcquire announces new release of MissionView!

The latest version of MissionView has a large number of new features including:

  • Replay of recording data with interactive recording data navigation
  • Powerful alarm subsystem that displays and records when user-configurable alarm conditions are met
  • Additional real-time charts and graphs including scrolling horizontal and vertical bar charts
  • Performance optimizations for large numbers of parameters and high data rates
  • Open any web page URL as a display window within MissionView
  • Global preference controls

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NetAcquire Recording Data Export Tool

Announcing the new NetAcquire Recording Data Export Tool, a powerful Windows program that extracts telemetry data from NetAcquire IRIG 106 Chapter 10 recordings.

It offers:

  • Export of raw payloads from Chapter 10 packets
  • Export of processed payloads from Chapter 10 packets
  • Decommutation of PCM streams, including support for super-commutated, sub-commutated, and fragmented parameters
  • Frame synchronization of Chapter 10 PCM throughput packets
  • Engineering unit conversion
  • Support for additional telemetry formats including format change, Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC-429 messages
  • Select relevant data by specifying export start and end times
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NetAcquire Server Software Version 8.4

Announcing the release of NetAcquire server software version 8.4 that continues to expand NetAcquire real-time processing capabilities.

New features include:

End-to-end embedded timestamp processing to deliver microsecond-accurate timestamps to data displays

IRIG 106 Chapter 7 demultiplexing and decommutation

Even more Telemetry-over-IP (TMoIP) capabilities including:

  • IRIG 106 Chapter 10 over UDP time packet support with accurate timestamp communication
  • Selectable filtering in TMoIP Status table for showing relevant connections
  • Convenient enable/disable of BERT with a one-click user checkbox
  • Performance enhancements to support large numbers of simultaneous high-speed TMoIP channels and extremely accurate time/data correlation

Additional decommutator capabilities including support for ARINC-429 and BCD

QCP-D2TTL

NetAcquire announces our newest, high-performance Quick Connect Panel (QCP) for serial interfaces!

The new QCP-D2TTL panel offers:

  • Rock-solid, error-free TTL communication at bit rates and over cable lengths that were previously unachievable.
  • Supports over 40 Mbps on all channels simultaneously due to advanced signal integrity modeling and design of sophisticated transmitter/receiver circuitry with Tx pulse shaping and Rx tuned hysteresis.
  • Fully ESD protected I/O, short-circuit protected Tx buffer outputs, and lead-free design.
  • Space-saving 2U (a 50% reduction in vertical rack space) supports 8 bi-directional serial channels plus IRIG time in and out, plus an even higher density 3U panel version that supports 16 channels.
  • Per-channel data and clock receive line termination is now software programmable to quickly match site’s existing cabling.
  • At-a-glance Rx and Tx channel and IRIG in/out status indicators on panel.
  • Hinged design hides rack-internal cabling, while still providing easy access.

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Preston Hauck

President, Chief Technology Officer

Preston Hauck founded NetAcquire in 1993 with the goal of providing computer communications and processing systems that seamlessly operate with real-time performance over distributed networks.

During the early years of NetAcquire, Preston took a hands-on role in developing new products. He remains enthusiastically involved in helping customers solve complex real-world challenges.

As the company grew, Preston leveraged his information systems background to create tools that could automate business processes, increasing company efficiency, responsiveness, and scalability. In his current role, Preston oversees new product direction, manages company growth,works directly with clients and the engineering team on projects that call for his applications design expertise.

Prior to founding NetAcquire, Preston served as vice president of software engineering for Microstar Laboratories, a provider of PC-based test and measurement products. During his tenure, he helped the company grow tenfold in both revenue and employees. Preston developed an innovative real-time operating system from the ground-up, plus a data processing engine that powered all of Microstar's products for more than two decades.

Preston holds a bachelor's degree in computer science, graduating first in his class in 1984 from the University of British Columbia.  He was granted a U.S. patent for developing a novel approach to initialize one processor from another in a multi-processor system. He has published a number of papers on real-time computer systems and regularly teaches networked telemetry processing classes.

Preston was born in Canada. After many years living in Washington State, he proudly became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2003. He enjoys traveling, reading, photography, basketball, skiing, and movies with his wife Colleen and their two children.

John Bono

Engineering Vice President

John Bono, a Seattle area native, graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.  John started his career with Boeing Aerospace Company, working in a variety of roles. He received personal recognition from Boeing’s CEO for his contributions to 767 avionics.  John designed hardware and firmware for a Mil-Std-1553 bus interface and was the hardware lead and system designer for a B-1B flight simulator’s computer generated imagery display.  After Boeing, John joined Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) as a signal processing engineer. He was promoted to the role of ultrasound system architect before becoming the software and systems lead for an image storage and network transport system. During John’s tenure at ATL, he received a Technical Fellow award, became a member of the Senior Technical Staff, and had a role in ATL’s achievement of ISO 9001 certification.  

When John joined the rapidly growing NetAcquire Corporation in 2001, his “big company” experience was leveraged to enhance configuration management and quality systems and processes. He soon became the Management Representative for the company’s AS 9100 certification efforts.  

Today, John is involved in the system, hardware, and firmware design of virtually every system NetAcquire ships.  While the majority of these systems are customer-specified configurations of NetAcquire COTS hardware and software modules, many other systems are rack-sized, challenging configurations involving complex interchanges of information in all forms.  The NetAcquire motto of “connect anything to anything” is John’s daily mission; he knows that, when applied to real-time systems, there will be a continuous stream of interesting problems to solve and challenges to conquer to best meet the needs of his customers and their mission critical projects around the world.

Steve Proudlock

Sales Vice President

For many NetAcquire customers, Steve is the initial face and voice of the company. While he has a desk at the company headquarters in Kirkland, Washington, quite often he’s in the air, flying to meet customers, discuss projects and set solutions into motion.

Steve joined NetAcquire in the summer of 2001. He sees his principal role as being the customer’s advocate. Steve thrives on opportunities to work on-site with NetAcquire customers to see first-hand the tasks and challenges they face.

In 2002, Steve joined the volunteer organizing committee for the International Telemetering Conference; he serves on the committee to this day. Steve also supports and participates in the meetings and industry standards efforts of several Range Commanders Council (RCC) committees.

Steve is an Army Veteran, having served in locations around the world in military law enforcement and personal protection roles. After graduating Pre Law from Central Washington University, he began a sales career in retail consumer electronics. The career choice was inspired by his favorite uncle, Ken Cartwright, a career tire salesman at Sears. Ken taught Steve the foundation principles of professional salesmanship: “Say what you are going to do, and then do it,” and “Get to know someone by showing sincere interest and earning their trust”.  

Steve’s Microsoft and Cisco certifications help him better understand the technical aspects of test range telemetry. While Steve is well versed in all aspects of NetAcquire technology today, he still learns something new on a daily basis from his colleagues.

Steve is a Seattle area native who enthusiastically gives his time and resources to a local charity dedicated to supporting foster children and their families.

Mark Roseberry

President

Mark Roseberry has been with NetAcquire since its inception. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, graduating with honors from the University of British Columbia. Mark has almost 40 years of software development and business management expertise. He has been instrumental in  the Company's business development and growth while running the NetAcquire Canada engineering office in Vancouver since 2001 and has been involved in the design and implementation of many key NetAcquire software components.

Mark shares our founder Preston Hauck's hands-on philosophy and his user-centric approach makes him a frequent participant and advocate for strong technical solutions ranging from customer-driven requirements development to robust implementation to  top-notch technical support and responsiveness.