AN/VRC-99x

Widely dispersed forces can now exchange real-time data, voice and video with the AN/VRC-99x, a secure, wideband, programmable, extended-range, open-architecture communications system.

Since the AN/VRC-99C requires no fixed infrastructure, forces are more flexible, more mobile, and less vulnerable to enemy interruption.

Description

The AN/VRC-99x terminal, which can be configured for ground, shipboard, and airborne platforms, provides virtual circuit and datagram service, which guarantees reliable, simultaneous, multi-channel voice, data, imagery, and video transmission.

Digital signal processing provides flexibility and operational simplicity in end-to-end communication connectivity, packet-formatting, and packet-switching protocols. Spread-spectrum modulation, embedded encryption, and support for transmit power control capability provide security and integrity for today’s strategic and tactical networks. The basic system provides coverage from 1300 to 2000 MHz.

Application

The AN/VRC-99x can provide wireless local-area network service for line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight data links. Adaptive routing provides network survivability in the most challenging dynamic mobile applications, as required by the Warfighter Information Network Architecture and the Tactical Internet .

Features

• Digitized voice/data/imagery/video
• User-selectable burst rate of 625 kbps to 10 Mbps with option for fully adaptive operation
• Dynamic bandwidth allocation
• Six levels of quality of service offered
• Low-probability-of-intercept and anti-jam capabilities utilizing specialized spread-spectrum techniques
• Low-probability-of-detection capability via transmit power control*
• Embedded type-1 encryption that is EKMS/AKMS compliant
• Multiple-user configuration-routing protocols available (static routes, OSPF, and bridge mode)
• Forward error correction
• RAKE processing for multipath
• Embedded COTS IP router
• Frequency hopping mode
• Programmability supports multiple heterogeneous networks via gateways and internet protocols
• User-friendly front panel
• Automatic initialization/network entry at power on – no user setup required
• Asynchronous/synchronous interfaces
  – RS-232
  – Ethernet 802.3
• Tempest-tested COMSEC module with networking efficiency design
• Compliant with Army technical architecture and joint technical architecture

* Growth options and planned upgrades will further enhance the functional capabilities of the system.