EriTac Tactical Systems
EriTac
KONGSBERG's tactical communications system EriTac features the world's most advanced EPM (Electronic Protective Measures - ECCM).
EriTac's flexibility allows the system to be tailored to the user's requirements. Its high-capacity, autonomous, distributed switches maintain communications even under the severest conditions. And it is ready to provide full service just minutes after power-up.
Typical applications for EriTac are:
- Tactical area networks
- Air defence networks
- Command post communication networks
- Soldier Networks
EriTac can be supplied on a turnkey basis, or as an upgrade of an existing network.
Eritac offers:
- Speed thanks to the system's configuration flexibility, high speed service performance and rapid deployment/re-deployment capabilities.
- Free mix of subscriber services and equipment from magneto telephones to high speed broadband data and video transmission.
- High survivability through robust synchronisation and routing algorithms.
- Superior Electronic Protective Measures (EPM) using adaptive frequency hopping and high reliability synchronisation.
- Full service just minutes after power up since settings are stored.
- Autonomous operation at all levels thanks to distributed network data and management.
- Cost effectiveness thanks to the small size and light weight of the equipment, requiring smaller and fewer vehicles.
Features
Commanders must be able to gather information and issue orders rapidly and securely to field unit. To do so, they need an intergrated, high- capacity communications network that will continue to operate - even when some equipment is damaged, or the radio part is subject to severe jamming.
Today, changing battlefield scenarios demand a high degree of mobility and flexibility in the communications system. The network needs to interface with both old telephone and radio equipment as well as modern data terminals. And it needs to be ready for new features to service future needs.
EriTac fulfills these all these demands.
Electronic Protectice Measures (EPM) at every level
The EPMs implemented in each of EriTac's network elements work together to give the world%u2019s most advanced EPM performance. The EPMs implemented are:
- Delta modulation and Forward error correction (FEC), used at the user level for voice and data, respectiveley.
- Fast, reliable synchronisation and signalling between switches assure operation even in hostile environments. Flood search and automatic alternative routing guarantee communication continuity as long as a transmission link can be established.
- Enhanced EUROCOM synchronisation and frame alignment, used at the link level. The EriTac encryption devices provide a very high degree of protection without bit-error multiplication. In addition, the synchronisationprocedures can tolerate a very high Bit Error Rate (BER).
- Automatic output power control in combination with directional antennas decrease the risk of the detection of the radio signal.
- Adaptive frequency hopping with durable synchronisation system improves resistance to jamming. Frequency hopping with frequency duplex operation can be selected as EPM instead of time duplex and direct sequence. This permits complex, mesh networks to be established.
Flexibility
A network management station can remotely control all switches in an EriTac network. A display shows all the transmission links in the network. EriTac's user-friendly graphical user interface allows operators to supervise and authorise changes, and check and change subscriber data in any of the switches. The management station can be connected anywhere in the network as a subscriber. But even if the management station is not functional, the network will remain fully operational and can still be redeployed with full functionality.