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Managing and Processing the ISR Data Deluge
Mobile Ad Hoc Networking
Revamps Military
Communications
With massive amounts of real-time military ISR data to disseminate, traditional
networking schemes can’t keep up. What’s needed are mobile net technologies that
deliver the reliability and flexibility required on the deployed edge.
Chris O’Rourke, Technical Marketing Manager
Cisco Systems
Stephen B. Johnson, Customer Support Engineer
Extreme Engineering Solutions
Driven by technologies such as data
networking, GPS, real-time video
feeds from UAVs, and satellite in-
Gigabit or 100Mbps
Ethernet Physical connect
2 Mbps
RF Over The Air
Links
telligence, today’s modern military has
access to a plethora of real-time data.
RAR
Neighbor A 2 Mbps
1 Mbps
However, getting this information to the
warfighter at the “edge of the network”
is still problematic. Getting real-time
voice, data and streaming video to the
Neighbor B 1 Mbps
Neighbor C 128Kbps
128 Kbps
B
warfighter at the edge is no easy task.
ies providing Networking solutions now infrastructure might be in Figure 1
C
on into products, place technologies on the battlefield, and companies. though Whether your typically goal is to research A the view latest of a battlefield illustrating a mobile, wireless network capable of communicating
ion Engineer, it or cannot jump to a company's support technical the heavier page, the require- goal of Get Connected is to put you
voice, data and video traffic. The networking infrastructure is located in vehicles equipped
you require for ments whatever of type new, of technology, feature-rich applications.
nd products you are searching for.
with backhaul radios and embedded routers.
Soldiers are mobile and need high-per-
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formance, high-bandwidth networks
that move with them to deliver the in- seamless access to timely information to equipment in operations and command
formation they need.
all warfighters and decision makers at centers. But it isn’t practical or even
The U.S. DoD has standardized on every level in the military hierarchy. This possible to create a fixed, wired network
IP networks to achieve the goals set out enables soldiers, ground vehicles, aircraft infrastructure on a battlefield; the only
in the high-level Global Information Grid and command centers to shape collected practical way to provide a network-
(GIG) and Network Operations (formerly
Network End Centric of Article
Warfare) doctrines. The
information into a coherent, accurate
view of the battlefield.
ing infrastructure is to create a mobile
wireless network. Since most soldiers
goal for Network Operations is to provide
are typically in or near some sort of ve-
Mobile Network Building Blocks hicle, an effective way to create a mo-
A portion of a military IP network bile wireless network is to make use of
can be based on fixed wired infrastruc- vehicles such as Humvees, Strykers and
ture, utilizing satellites and networking Bradley Fighting Vehicles to carry the
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