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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Scalable Network Technologies announced today that NASA is a customer. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio chose QualNet to model satellite communications for the Computing, Information, and Communications Technologies Program (CICT). CICT is a project focused on developing a seamless distributed computing and information system to support increased fidelity and faster development of NASA applications. QualNet software is a high speed network modeling tool used to simulate a wide range of computer networks in real-time. QualNet models mobile ad hoc networks, as well as wired Internet and cellular networks. Simulations are highly accurate due to an efficient discrete event simulation kernel running a large library of detailed protocol models. The NASA research team bought QualNet for a project within the CICT program called On Board Agile Communications for Access Networks. Monty Andro, Electrical Engineer at NASA Glenn, explained the project objectives: "We are developing ad-hoc space communications networks to optimize data flow between formation flying satellites. Also known as cluster satellites, these close formation spacecraft take measurements in space, exchange data, and send the information back down to earth." "The objectives of NASA's CICT program are very well matched with the capabilities of QualNet," stated SNT Founder and CEO Rajive Bagrodia. "QualNet's ad hoc routing models for mobile networks are very advanced. We also have unparalleled physical layer models accounting for modulation, path loss, interference and terrain effects. We are very happy that NASA has chosen QualNet for this project and hope to work with them in other programs in the future."