Aerospace and Defense Application Examples

We are seeing increased interest in our standards-based technologies (considered the de-facto standards for demanding 24x7 communications applications) from developers in the military tasked with building mission-critical, always-on systems. Performance Technologies' communications hardware and radar protocol software are currently being used to track missing and potentially hijacked aircraft. Our standards-based communications hardware and integrated radar receiver protocol stacks are ideal for such applications because they allow for quick connection to the vast majority of world commercial and military radar systems. These products are also ideal for applications that perform missile testing or "Friend or Foe" radar detection, where every millisecond matters and no room for system failure exists.

Products built around open standards such as CompactPCI®, PICMG® 2.16 and PCI provide equipment developers a modernized, off-the-shelf platform for radar information based on newer, more reliable IP/Ethernet communications technologies. Such a conversion allows radar data to be transmitted efficiently, without degrading quality or safety. Additionally, there are continuously new standards-based products being introduced that allow for faster and more reliable failover, offering virtually zero downtime for mission-critical and time-sensitive applications.

Listed below are Performance Technologies' products that are frequently used in aerospace and defense applications:

Typical Applications:

• Aerial Reconnaissance System
• I/O Front End to Critical Defense and Homeland Security Server
• Radar Data Extraction
• Military Training
• Military Control System
• Surveillance and Control Systems for the Modern Military

Software Solutions:

• NexusWare® WAN Protocol Software
  • Radar Receiver: CD-2, Marconi 10-Bit, ASTERIX, Thomson-CSF, Thomson-TVT2, Toshiba, TPS-43, Modified Eurocontrol, General 18-Bit, NEC Radar Extractor, TPS-75, Raduga-2
  • HDLC (ABM/LAPB, LAPD, NRM, SDLC)
  • X.25
  • Frame Relay
  • Asynchronous Data Transfer
  • TADIL-B

Embedded Solutions:

• Application-Ready Advanced Managed Platforms™
• Ethernet Switches
• Single Board Computers
• I/O and Communication Products
• WAN/LAN Communication Servers