Get Ready To Ditch Miles of Cables ― This Will Give Marines a Secure LTE Network in the Field
Authored By: Todd Smith
Published in: Marine Corps Times
“For decades or longer, Marines tasked with setting up a command post and ensuring that communications were encrypted faced hours, if not a day’s worth, of running cables through tents, hooking up individual crypto devices to nearly every piece of hardware and constantly reloading crypto keys.
That wasn’t only a massive time suck, it also meant that few, if any now ubiquitous civilian devices such as smartphones and tablet computers could come near the tactical network, for fear of a break in the security bubble….”
Read the article and watch reporter Todd Smith demonstrate PacStar’s groundbreaking Secure Wireless Command Post for classified communications over Wi-Fi and LTE at Modern Day Marines 2018.
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