13.30 - 16.30 Integrating Software Defined Radios With Existing Tactical Communications Network Infrastructure

This workshop will examine the challenges of ensuring you get the best out of your existing communications network infrastructure, as and when you deploy Software Defined Radios (SDRs) to support your tactical communication needs.

There are concerns and reservations over the high costs of implementing an SDR-based solution to meet a nation’s communication requirements. Uncertainties about the compatibility and interoperability with legacy and existing systems are leading to questions about prior investment being rendered obsolete

As experts in the field of working with multiple communications standards, protocols and waveforms, Etherstack are in a position to provide an impartial, comparative analysis to help answer the challenges you face:

• How do SCA standards in SDRs enable interoperability with legacy systems?
• What changes and modifications need to be made to network infrastructures to enable supporting SCA-based SDRs? What about non-SCA compliant SDRs?
• How can nations balance capability versus value for money when considering SDR procurement?
• Advantages and limitations of SDRs: Power, range, reliability, quality, spectrum utilisation, bandwidth and speed: How do they compare to legacy systems?
• Do SDRs provide for enhanced security of networks and data exchange?

This will be an interactive workshop and all participants with experience in procuring, deploying and developing military tactical communications solutions are encouraged to join the discussion.

Workshop Leader:

Anna Squires
Commercial Director
Etherstack