Bangalore: In an exclusive to Frontier India Defence and Strategic News Service (FIDSNS),the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) a unit of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) elaborated its successes with Indian Army on Tactical C3 I deployments.
For the first time revealed to FIDSNS that Indian Army had held “Excercise Parikshan” and “Excercise Akrosh” using “SAMVAHAK” which is a Integrated Command Information Decisions Support Systems (CIDSS) for Indian Army commanders.
Indian Army is now inducting a Wireless Message Transfer Unit (WMTU) with modified Stars V Radio with a data rate of 16/19.2 KBPS. WMTU enables transmission of IP packets over wired and wireless media using Mil Std 188-220 A protocol. It provides connectivity to mobile clients for accessing network resources. Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is currently producing 136 WMTU systems in its Bangalore unit.
Indian Army has also successfully tested SANJAY situation assessment tool as a part of Battlefield Surveillance System (BSS).
These efforts are a part of Tactical Command Control Communication and Intelligence system (TAC C3I) for the Indian Army. SAMVAHAK and SANJAY have robust information security features.
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Information security solutions like firewall, IP ecurity and secure emails are also provided to sensitive departments of Government of India with CAIR developed products.
while world is running out of bandwith even at 100Mbps wired or wirless i wonder if those 16/19.2KBps _integrated_ CIDSS would be sufficient!
Dear Girish,
In war don’t expect princely bandwidths.
you mean spectrum jammers? guess CDMA would take care of that. my doubt only was, what great information could be exchanged at such a low data rates? of course i do understand it is upto the application to make that judgement!
anyways, thanks for your reply!
I am refering to modem dial ups with satellite uplinks at worst case scenario. CDMA requires infrastructure at vincinity.
the adsl type ones do provide bandwidth in excess of 8-10Mbps, why stick to pstn types? as far sat’ s aehf and/or wgs have bandwidth in 100′s of Mbps, highly secure and more terminals!!
Stars V Radio A.k.a Secure VHF Tactical Radio uses VHF. So technically it uses a VHF data modem. There are very few protocols which allow a single VHF channel to sustain more than 20 kbps. Even the high-speed modem supports rates up to. 64 Kbps. But there are losses.
10-20 kbps is standard military rate communication rate.
ADSL can generally only be used over short distances, typically less than 5 km. Not fit for battlefield. How can you implement it in desert and mountains? Stars V is not a cybercafe material.
The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) needs dedicated AEHF capable satellites which the Indian forces do not have.
me neither talking cybercafe’ material :) and as you said our forces do not have aehf capable sat’, do i see a ‘but…’ coming after that?!
These are tactical digital information systems.
hw r u going to use ur system in battle field.
hi all i have worked myself on one of these things and i tell u what they are too complex for fauj rgt now and half of them are not even aware of what does cidss stands so from my side i dnt know
hi,
happen to stumble on this blog during a search on Tac C3I.
i dont think military has a band width problem, as was being projected by girish in 2007 (first post).
the complexity is not an issue, let the system be fielded first!