REDCOM offers the SLICE 2100, equipped with TRANSip technology, which converges IP and legacy networks in a single 1U platform.
And it has uses more bracing -- and timely -- than just sitting in some hi-tech office somewhere in Seattle.
Since the product offers an integrated Call Manager, Media Gateway (News - Alert) and legacy support functionality in a single box, it pretty much eliminates the need for multiple units offering similar services.
This is handy for the military, among other target markets. And if a product’s made to function well in war, it can handle your peacetime needs as well.
Warfighters currently use a wide range of communications and encryption technologies that were not designed to be compatible, such as VoIP and legacy equipment from different generations of technology. REDCOM (News - Alert) officials say the SLICE 2100 can deliver the kind of secure converged network warfighters need.
“Regardless of your mission,” company officials say, “SLICE 2100 converges tactical and strategic networks from a broad range of technologies for maximum communications interoperability, including SIP, SCIP, V.150.1, GSM, radio, SATCOM, ISDN PRI, Euro PRI, IPv4 and IPv6.”
REDCOM’s Media Gateway has dozens of legacy interfaces available as well, so warfighters get “all the benefits of IP while preserving the functionality of their existing telecom infrastructure,” REDCOM officials say.
And since the SLICE 2100 provides a Multi-Level Precedence and Preemption (MLPP) software capability (including ANSI 619a) for end-to-end warfighter communications, according to company officials, this means this “essential element of command and control ensures that the most important calls get through and are able to tandem and deliver priority calls to the end location and warfighter.”
The secure conferencing capabilities of the SLICE 2100 provides tools for warfighter communications, with several conferencing styles available, including “progressive” (participants added one at a time), “meet-me” (participants meet at a valid number at a specified time), and “preset” (conference controller initiates the event, adding participants as they answer).
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.Edited by Stefanie Mosca