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www.meshdynamics.com - MeshDynamics, Inc. Byron Henderson, 408-398-6395 news@meshdynamics.com MeshDynamics has teamed with Tactical Micro, Inc. of Fredericksburg, VA to deliver high performance wireless video streaming over a large outdoor military gunnery range in a recent successful trial. MeshDynamics MD4000 WiFi wireless mesh nodes on each armored vehicle support tactical gunsight video cameras operating at
up to 30 frames per second from multiple armored vehicles simultaneously. Fixed MD4000 nodes link the mobile nodes via fiber connections to a centralized Range Operations Center where the video is monitored and analyzed.
The armored vehicles move over a roughly two square mile area, traveling from one "Battle Point" to another. The fixed MD400 wireless mesh nodes are mounted on a number of towers, with the longest link to a moving vehicle typically about one mile. The MD4000 mobile wireless mesh nodes on each armored vehicle are equipped with a scanning radio that allows the mobile node to "see" the best available fixed tower signal even while the vehicle is moving at tactical speed.
MeshDynamics' patented and patent-pending mesh topology software is based on distributed dynamic radio intelligence. This turns each mobile node into a "radio robot" that allows the network to converge rapidly and for mobile nodes to associate almost instantaneously with a new fixed node with minimal gaps in the video stream. When an armored vehicle moves out of range of the fixed towers, it is also possible for it to find a link through a nearby mobile vehicle.
John Moulton, President of Tactical Micro, was looking for two distinct capabilities in considering wireless equipment for this application: high throughput, low delay and low jitter for best video performance; and robust fully mobile wireless connectivity. "As in many of our tactical video applications, our military customer in this case was demanding the highest possible quality to improve training effectiveness," said Moulton. "The ability to deliver that high quality real-time streaming video from mobile vehicles traveling over a large rugged gunnery range led us to MeshDynamics."
MeshDynamics MD4000 nodes have been used in a variety of tactical battlefield environments to transmit video, voice, and sensor data between moving armored vehicles. MeshDynamics Founder and CTO Francis daCosta noted, "Mobile military environments are well-suited for us, because they are increasingly requiring video and voice along with sensor and other data. This demands high-performance over many hops in full motion at high speeds, but our Third-generation wireless mesh technology delivers the necessary performance over a variety of frequency bands."
About Tactical Micro, Inc.
Tactical Micro is an engineering systems integration company specializing in range instrumentation and audio/video broadcasting and recording systems for use on military training ranges. Tactical Micro engineers have over 30 years of experience in custom installation of audio/video telemetry solutions onboard military tactical vehicles and installing audio/video recording and playback infrastructure for a myriad of military range instrumentation applications. Tactical Micro, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA. More information at: www.tacticalmicro.com
About MeshDynamics, Inc.
MeshDynamics delivers one of the only third-generation wireless mesh networking solutions for high-performance outdoor data, voice, and video networking. Based on sophisticated dynamic channel-agile networking algorithms, MeshDynamics' MD4000 family of Structured Mesh(TM) wireless nodes deliver very low-latency and low-jitter performance, even over multi-hop topologies where many earlier generation wireless mesh networking products fail. MeshDynamics' products are in use worldwide in mining and industrial, homeland security/defense, transportation, and metro/municipal network applications. MeshDynamics, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. More information at: www.meshdynamics.com
Mobile High Performance Wireless Mesh Delivers High Performance on
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