Thuraya Monitoring System- A Satellite Communication Surveillance

Company Introduction:

Stratign FZCO is a UAE based company, Established in the year 2002.

Stratign is uniquely positioned to offer latest technological, cutting edge
mission-critical products systems and customized solutions for
Communication Surveillances, Signal Analysis, Communication Security
and Jamming Systems. All solutions meet the best quality or military
Standards.

Technology Introduction:

Thuraya Satellite Communications uses GEO satellites and provides blanket

coverage to more than 99 countries spanning Europe, North and Central
Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, nearly 40
per cent of the world’s population. The system has been adapted for efficient
operation in both satellite and GSM environments and offers following
telecommunications services:
• Voice
• Short Messaging
• Fax
• Data

System Approach:

Stratign has been designed and developed on-line portable and Fixed
Thuraya Monitoring System for strategic application. Thuraya Monitoring
System is designed and developed as a 100% passive monitoring systems
which are capable of monitoring, deciphering and logging Thuraya
communications including Voice, SMS and Digital FAX.

Thuraya Monitoring System:

• Portable Thuraya monitoring -

 • Fixed Thuraya Monitoring System -

Portable Thuraya Monitoring :

The Portable Thuraya Monitoring System is a tactical on-line Thuraya

monitoring, decrypting and logging solution capable of monitoring,
deciphering and logging Thuraya communications including Voice, SMS
and Digital FAX.

The Portable Thuraya Monitoring System is designed to monitor Thuraya

communications on the L-Band uplink and downlink channels, the system is
completely passive and does not interfere with the normal communications
and hence its presence cannot be detected. The ruggedized make and
portability of the system makes it ideal for quick strategic deployment. The
user friendly GUI and simple system configuration, significantly reduces the
training time required for the operator.

Fixed Thuraya Monitoring System :

The Fixed Thuraya Monitoring System is designed and developed as a 100%

Passive Monitoring System which is capable of monitoring, deciphering and
logging Thuraya communications including Voice, SMS and Digital FAX.
The Static Thuraya Monitoring System is capable of providing both side of
the communication (full duplex call), call related information along with the
location of the Thuraya Phone by monitoring of both L & C-band.

Since the power transmitted by the mobile handset on the uplink is very less,
it is often difficult to monitor it on the L-Band, so the system monitors this
information on the C-band downlink (satellite to earth station) this
overcomes the distance limitation between the system and the target while
monitoring. The Surveillance of L-band (b/w Thuraya satellite and Thuraya
mobile) and C-band (b/w Thuraya Satellite and Thuraya Gateway), provides
total traffic monitoring of the targeted spot beams.
System Features:

• The System Monitors RF (L-band) Mobile to satellite.

o Earth-to-space 1626.5-1660.5 MHz.
o Space-to-Earth 1525.0-1559.0 MHz.
• RF (C-band) Feeder Link.
o Space-to-Earth 3400 to 4200MHz.
• System monitors Voice, SMS, Fax (optional) and Data (optional) communication.
• System intercepts uplink information of Thuraya terminal at C-band downlink
(from the satellite to gateway station) and downlink information of the Thuraya
terminal at L-band (from satellite to Thuraya terminal).
• System can be configured to monitor the C-band only when L-band is not
available.
• The proposed system is capable to monitor a cluster of seven spot beams
simultaneously. However operator can also intercepts the duplex calls from other
nearby spot beams by tuning the system to the spot beam of their interest. But this
can not be guaranteed because of frequency reuse on the Thuraya network at L-
Band.
• Being a modular architecture, the capability of the system in terms of number of
calls can be increased by adding extra hardware.
• Coverage area of the system can be extended to another cluster of 7 spot beams
using portable Thuraya monitoring system (optional)
• The system can intercept calls, initiated from PSTN to MES, MES to PSTN and
Thuraya to Thuraya terminals.
• Coverage area can be changed by the operator according to priority of intelligence
mission.
• The system is capable of intercepting and displaying the following information:

o Spot beam ID.

o Date and time of call.

o TMSI.

o IMSI.

o IMEI.
 o Latitude and Longitude of target.

o Telephone number of called party.

o Telephone number of the calling party.

o Direction of the call flow (Incoming Call or Outgoing call).

o Call type (Voice or SMS).

o Duration of call (With start time and end time).

• All Thuraya communication in the coverage is intercepted.

• The location of the target is mapped on Digital MAP.
• Capability to intercept all communication from the targeted spot beams in both
uplink and downlink directions.
• System automatically scans the available spot beams and provides the spot beam
ID, Latitude & Longitude of center of the spot beam, Channel Number.
• System automatically tunes the demodulator to desired spot beam
• System monitors both forward and reverse channels simultaneously
• Modular architecture of the system allows further expansion of the system
• System maintains the internal call data record for each communication with all
identity parameters that can be intercepted for each call.
• System is capable of detecting new switching schema during which new
frequencies are allocated to L-Band and C-Band mapping. The system has unique
capabilities to detect these new frequencies in a very short time.

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