With today's ever-changing mission, forward deploying military teams and emergency response organizations have become essentiall to the safety of our lives. Critical missions are constantly challenged to securely connect with and extend the reach of their backend secure wired networks. Providing necessary access with enough usable uplink, along with secure connectivity to mandatory systems for users across long distances and remote outdoor locations is one of many limiting factors in deployed operation's ability to effectively achieve their objectives. A traditional wired approach is just not practical, and in many cases, such as disaster response or working in conflict areas becomes impossible. Further, knowing that these devices are critical infrastructure elements and employed in harsh outdoor environments for months or years at a time, they must be extremely durable, weatherized, and easy to configure and maintain.

Specifically in military and other extremely mobile operations, such as traveling convoys in "hot zones" and remote command center missions, the "boots-on-the-ground" as well as moving vehicles are brought to an area where there is no reliable communications infrastructure. For these reasons, it is apparent to the mission to implement a flexible, rugged, and dynamic Secure Wireless Mesh solution which allow these distributed assets to connect to the network without the installation and management constraints associated with traditional wired networks.

Mesh networks are the ideal enabler, allowing nodes to move within the area of operation, forming trusts with neighboring devices and dropping connections with non-reliant neighbors all dynamically. But not just ANY wireless network can be utilized for use in tactical maneuver environments, they must support mobility of the all nodes. Even those mounted in vehicles, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs).

This is why LTI DataComm has teamed with best in class partners to provide bring secure, net-centric, high-speed wireless communications to the tactical edge, providing voice, video and data communications to on-the-move warfighters and vehicles in the field. Delivering FIPS 140-2 compliant security along with industry leading radio range the Fortress ES210 and the ES820 are specifically tailored to be worn by the soldier (man-packable) and/or mounted in a vehicle to include ground vehicles, UAV's, and UGV's. With LTI's extensive experience of secure wireless design and with advent Fortress's Tactical Mesh Points, this will allow soilders and emergency response teams alike, along mission critical assets such as cameras, sensors, and vehicles of any kind to connect to the network securely, seamlessly, and effortlessly to complete any mission.

Related Technologies

• Mesh Wireless
• Microwave
• Point-to-Point Wireless

More Information

Practice Area Overview- Secure Wirless

Partner Overview- 082: Partner Overview; Fortress Technologies

Solution Overviews
• 104: Fortress' Video Surveillance Solution; Leveraging Wireless for Physical Security & Protection



Datasheets:

• 101: Fortress' Vehicle Mesh Point; Secure Net-Centric Wireless Communications
• 100: Fortress' Infrastructure Mesh Point; Secure Net-Centric Wireless Communications
• 099: Fortress' Tactical Mesh Point; Secure Net-Centric Wireless Communications
• 098: Fortress' FastPath Mesh™; Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
• 077: Fortress's ES520; Secure Wireless Bridge
• 076: Fortress's Secure Wireless Solutions for Homeland Security
• 074: Fortress's Suite B NSA Cryptography; Protecting Government Communication