BAE SYSTEMS further enhances Ptarmigan system
01 May 2002
The UK Ministry of Defence has accepted the General Purpose-Trunk Access Port (GP-TAP) enhancement to the British Army's Ptarmigan area communications system for embodiment into field units, following a highly successful technical trial during which no fault reports were raised against the enhanced system.
GP-TAP provides Ptarmigan users with a digital gateway to external communication systems and is an essential step in meeting the Ministry of Defence's Digitisation Stages 1 and 2 requirements. It features rugged protocols to support voice and data services across cable, terrestrial radio and satellite links.
The new GP-TAP capability can be operated in international mode for working with NATO and other allied communication systems, or in national mode for links to UK strategic and tactical systems such as DFTS, BOWMAN, CORMORANT and FALCON.
Ptarmigan was the world's first deployed military digital area communications system, incorporating many advanced technologies now mirrored in the world of civil telecommunications. The system has been constantly updated to reflect changing military requirements, especially the networked communications needs of deployed forces undertaking expeditionary warfare and peacekeeping roles, and of operations within the emerging digitised battlespace.
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