Ground Communications

As command and control systems become more integrated and networked, having a robust communication infrastructure to provide the user community with the ability to collect and distribute information, while storing data for later analysis, is crucial to completing the assigned mission. Advances in IP-based networking, broadly used in civilian networks, can now be re-tasked to yield resilient, dependable systems that can survive unit damage and link failures.

These command and control requirements encompass a broad range of technologies and products focused on needs varying from sensor integration and real time image transport, to test, simulation, network element monitoring/ management and time-coded data storage/retrieval. Whatever the need, PT offers a cohesive portfolio of robust solutions that address the challenges facing today’s decision makers.

PT’s IPnexus ® Application-Ready Systems with Gb Ethernet switched architectures can provide the basis for an IP-based communication network that can also control, transport, process and record sensor/radar/radio/test data. Based on open architectural standards, our products are housed in corrosion resistant chassis that have redundant, hot swappable power supplies, switching elements and management modules, offering designers innovative, reliable, and scalable solutions for their most crucial control and infrastructure needs.

All of PT’s IPnexus system solutions offer total flexibility, scalability, and remote diagnostic and maintenance capabilities. This uncompromising, focused approach to high availability, using expanding open-standards gives system designs the fastest, most cost-efficient path to successful system deployment. At the same time, PT’s careful selection of components for long term availability and pin compatible upgrades assure that future evolution and growth is always an available option.