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Darpa Cracks Radio Incompatibility Problem Once and for All
 The mad scientists at Darpa have done it again. The Pentagons research group has announced a new system that could help U.S. troops and multinational forces communicate a problem that frequently plagued the countries cooperation in the field.Darpas nearly-completed Mobile Ad-Hoc Interoperability Gateway (MAINGATE) is said to overcome the technical incompatibilities between communications systems. Darpa awarded Raytheon an initial $155 million contract back in 2009. "The system relies on two technologies to provide an interoperable network for connecting forces. A high capacity Wireless IP Network (WIPN) radio provides a terrestrial Everything over IP backbone with enough capacity to simultaneously support many channels of voice, video and data. The second is MAINGATEs Interoperability Gateway, which provides inter-connectivity for otherwise incompatible communications equipment. According to Raytheon, MAINGATE provides 10 megabits per second to a network of as many as 128 nodes that could include drones, ships, bases and vehicles on the ground." Posted by: Squinty 2014-01-14 |
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