Northrop Grumman and wireless broadband network developer Flarion...
Northrop Grumman and wireless broadband network developer Flarion unveiled homeland security network communication system based on OFDM technology. Northrop’s Information Technology unit and Flarion said they planned to market network to govt. customers seeking advanced, secure broadband network for…
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security and emergency response applications. Companies said solution would provide: (1) Packet-switched voice and data airlink technology for national coverage, which they touted as replicating “wired broadband computing” network. (2) Flarion routers for wireless coverage and access that would be deployed at cellular base stations. (3) PC cards for personal computing use with PDAs and laptops. (4) Interoperability with IP network and “seamless” hand-off to 802.11-based wireless access points. Companies said system would have rapid deployment cellular base station, known as Cell-on-Light- Truck or COLT, that would include 2 base stations with IP network. Northrop and Flarion said that would allow COLT to offer up to 5 miles of cellular coverage and access to secure or public networks that could “be deployed at major disaster scenes” to ensure communications capabilities even if local carriers experienced congestion. Network reportedly could cost up to $2 billion to install, based on company estimates.