Persistent Systems will begin offering a new computer board-embedded cable that will extend the company’s Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network (MANET) from Generation 4 Man-Portable Unit radios to Android devices
Persistent Systems will begin offering a new computer board-embedded cable that will extend the company’s Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network (MANET) from Generation 4 Man-Portable Unit radios to Android devices, which have recently begun proliferating the battlefield. By pulling these mobile devices into a MANET, the Wave Relay cable will help boost the situational awareness of dismounted troops as more of them gain secure and reliable access to video feeds from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground systems.
Designed for communications in areas with limited or no infrastructure, a MANET is a self-forming and self-repairing web of radios similar to a wireless mesh network. However, MANET is more dynamic because the nodes (Wave Relay can scale upwards of 1,000 radios) using the network are the same ones running it. Some companies have been using Wi-Fi to link radios to mobile devices, but that approach has serious drawbacks such as information assurance problems.
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