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14 February 2011

Corps of Signals100 Glorious Years

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Trends

Cloud

Mobility

Video

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The Reality . . .

All information going digital.

–Accuracy, Fidelity, Storage and Retrieval

–Searching, Analysis, Information Management

All devices becoming network nodes.

–Access, Transmission, Distributed Systems

–Scaling, Fault Tolerance, Management, Flexibility

Video, Voice, and Instantaneous information will become more prevalent

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“immediate access to the RIGHTinformation to accomplish the mission.”

"Achieving Interoperability in a Network Centric Environment"

Netcentric = Discoverable + Interoperable + Collaborative + Effective

Information Security

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Netcentric = The Acceptable Intersection of Information Sharing & Information Security

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Cloud Definition

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Addressing Cloud Barriers

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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

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Unified Communications = Collaboration

Audio Conferencing

Video Conferencing

Chat/Instant Messaging

Shared Applications/Screen Sharing

Whiteboard

Awareness/Presence

Source:http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/34/341/docs/cki_collaboration_tools.doc

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The foundation for Collaboration = Network

“The Intelligent Information network is the key in enabling the collaboration to be enabled”

“Collaborative networks are network centric not voice centric, they are unified, converged and built on the basis of being established for collaboration”

You need to ensure the network is built with this in mind otherwise you may fail……..

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Secure

Structure and Intelligence for Today’s Battlefield

IP Network

E-Mail/Calendar

Mobility Conferencing and Collaboration

Voice and Unified Messaging

Command Post

TelephonyServices

Mission OrientedNetwork Centric Scalable & Efficient

Presence and Instant Messaging

End Points

Unified Communications

Video

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Resulting Converged Architecture

Communication Systems

IP

Network Services and Applications

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Trend is towards IP...All new Tactical Networks are Full IP :

UK: FALCON

USA: JNN, FCS, WIN-T, FORCENet

NL: TITAAN

SK: MOKIS

Chile: DIV6

Australia : SEA1442, JP2072

Germany : MOBKOMSYS

The in-service Tactical Networks are migrating to IP :

F: RITA IP Backbone

F+G : French German Brigade

Swiss: IMTS

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MOBILITY

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Loose integration between routers

and radios-Routers will evolve

at a much faster rate than radios.

We must “leak” information between layers (Dune

model). MANET alone is not the answer.

Breaking Tradition - RFC 4938

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VIDEO

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Surveillance Video Acquired

Captured Video received in Command

Center as uncompressed 50Mbps

MPEG2

Command Center users view desktop video as

MPEG4 at 5Mbps

Tactical HQ users view desktop video as WMA

at 256kbps

Combat users users view handheld video as

WMA at 56kbps

Captured Video automatically processed by the MXE3500 using a

predefined workflow profile

Maritime users view desktop video as WMA

at 128kbps

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Deployed User

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