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AN/VRC-99A
Widely dispersed forces can now exchange real-time data, voice, and video with this secure, wideband, programmable, extended-range, open-architecture communications system. The AN/VRC-99X requires no fixed infrastructure, and forces become more flexible and 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, and guarantees reliable, simultaneous, multichannel voice, data, imagery, and video transmission.
Digital signal processing provides 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 the 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 (static routes, OSPF, and bridge mode)
- Forward error correction
- RAKE processing for multipath
- Embedded commercial, off-the-shelf IP router
- Frequency hopping mode
- Programmability supports multiple heterogeneous networks via gateways and IPs
- User-friendly front panel
- Automatic initialization and network entry at power on (no user setup required)
- Asynchronous and 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.
