High Speed Networking And The Hughes Network Architecture

Hughes Aircraft Company is a large, decentralized, international high technology manufacturing company in the aerospace, defense and commercial sectors. As the U.S. defense spending began to decline in the later 1980s and early 1990, Hughes began to turn towards more commercial interests. At the same time, the Company's business environment was rapidly refocusing to produce more cost effective products and services and expand more into global markets. This rapid evolution included downsizing, organizational realignment and streamlining and a thorough re­ engineering of business, engineering and manufacturing processes.