Air force to deploy lightweight communications suite.The U.S. Air Force has put together a modular communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. that, when deployed, will replace an entire shelter of equipment. A single module will provide telephone lines, Internet connections and other communication infrastructure that typically is behind a cube cube, in geometry, regular solid bounded by six equal squares. All adjacent faces of a cube are perpendicular to each other; any one face of a cube may be its base. The dimensions of a cube are the lengths of the three edges which meet at any vertex. wall in an office environment, said Joan Wandrei, system program manager at the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center. Specifically, the module configurations offer voice, data, multiplexing multiplexing, in communication, technique whereby two or more independent messages, or information-bearing signals, are carried by a single common medium, or channel. , on-base transmission and network controls. Operators in the field have the option of communicating by radio or telephone. They also can connect to a local network or access a satellite. Participating in the five-year project, with an estimated worth of nearly half a billion dollars, are Dell Marketing, Round Rock, Tex.; Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Defense Mission Systems, Reston, Va.; General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2006 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. Decision Systems, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems, Gaithersburg, Md.; and, Redcom Laboratories, Victor, N.Y. |
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