The Broadband Global Area Network Remote Access Service (BGAN RAS) provides secured and managed DoD enterprise gateways to enable DoD users of Inmarsat's communications satellites to reach back to DoDIN/GiG services. The BGAN RAS will provide many advantages over existing BGAN stove piped gateway solutions where currently each DoD entity manages its own gateway. BGAN RAS will be an enterprise service solution that can be used by all DoD entities at a significant cost savings to DoD by the elimination of the redundant gateways. BGAN RAS will provide a secure access to Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) services by not using the commercial internet as part of its transport path as currently done by many on the existing BGAN gateways and by implementing the DoD processes for protecting its networks.

Value to Our Mission Partners

The BGAN RAS gateway is an enterprise solution that all BGAN users within the DoD can leverage as a secure and reliable means to obtain DISN services and reach-back to their home enclaves. The BGAN RAS gateway will relieve users from standing up, maintaining, and managing their own stove-piped BGAN gateway solutions and will allow users to solely focus on their mission. BGAN RAS provides greater OPSEC and mission assurance by having a dedicated connection to the Inmarsat SAS and a dedicated APN VPN that is not shared with any commercial entity. BGAN RAS will also have a dedicated circuit to a DISN Point of Presence (POP) and thus avoid any backside DISN connections. Users can terminate end user IPsec VPN tunnels on the BGAN RAS gateway and a Riverbed SCPS-compliant PEP solution will be available for all BGAN RAS users. BGAN RAS will simplify the service fulfillment process and it will also provide an enterprise-level tiered support solution for problem resolution.