July 2010 services useless. This devastation was experienced at the recent May 2008 earthquake which heavily struck the industrial province of Sichuan in China. Unlike terrestrial networks, satellites are completely immune to catastrophic events such as earthquakes, typhoons and landslides. Satellite platforms, like IPSTAR, can step-in to fill the communi- cation, command and control gaps as a result of crippled terrestrial lines. The IP

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