Network optimization solutions developer Expand Networks announced that the US Army and General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) awarded it a battle communications system contract. Expand will port its Accelerator Operating System to the Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 23 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy.
The Expand performance enhancing proxy will operate in a mobile ad-hoc environment where dynamic outbound links are created and broken frequently, and will have to provide soldiers with maximum communications efficiency on the move as well as at the halt.
According to GDC4S, WIN-T is the US Army’s high-speed, high-capacity backbone communications network, which links ground level soldiers with commanders and the Global Information Grid, the US Department of Defense’s worldwide network-centric information system. WIN-T is a critical enabler of LandWarNet, the Army’s far-reaching effort to transform into joint, network-centric, knowledge-based warfare.
Since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 9,000 Expand Accelerators have been deployed in networks throughout the US government and in all branches of the United States Military. Battle-proven in Afghanistan and Iraq with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Expand accelerators are also deployed in U.S. government enterprise networks, such as the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on April 13, 2008
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