NOAA is a leading international agency that works to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, and provides timely access to global environment data from satellites and other sources for protecting America’s economy, and security. The NOAA needs to utilize high quality and expandable switching systems to receive and transmit this important data. ETL Systems provided NOAA with and IF switching solution which satisfies the requirements for all the GOES satellite uplinks and downlinks. This case study discusses how the matrix switching systems from ETL enables NOAA to ultimately save lives, protect the environment, national security, and quality of life.