Networking & Communications

Networking Solutions

Curtiss-Wright’s networking solutions and field-proven communications provide the core capabilities for secure mobile networks onboard land, sea, and airborne platforms. Leveraging advances in enterprise and data center technology, we design and create our rugged solutions to deliver high-performance connectivity on converged, application-aware networks in disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) environments. For network security and information assurance, these modules and systems support a variety of secure network management protocols and authentication methods.

These rigorously tested solutions deliver reliable performance in the most demanding environmental conditions and extended temperatures. Curtiss-Wright expertise and experience help system integrators to securely and affordably deploy digital network architectures for enhanced situational awareness and network-centric operations.

Reliable High-Performance Connectivity

Gone are the days of isolated, single-function embedded appliances. Today’s systems are connected to local and wide area networks that enable distributed processing and share time-sensitive data. To meet the needs of modern missions, these networks must provide reliable high-performance connectivity, with integrated security that keeps classified data safe.

Curtiss-Wright’s networking solutions enable embedded fabrics, in-vehicle networks, and secure connections to wide-area networks with an extensive selection of rugged switching and routing systems, offering a wide variety of physical interfaces and extensive networking features. Our advanced signal integrity technology and real-time networking capabilities address the challenges of high-performance interconnect in the harshest environments, and our product interoperability helps you avoid system integration headaches. With Curtiss-Wright’s range of networking solutions, you get the high-performance and secure networking solutions your system needs, from the vendor you trust for the most demanding embedded environments.

High-Speed Fabrics

As the complexity of data processing for defense and aerospace applications increases, system designers must adapt to the latest proven technologies to deliver faster processing and information sharing. To address this challenge, many of our next-generation embedded computing cards will feature Fabric100™ connectivity. Fabric100 is a complete end-to-end ecosystem of high-speed rugged OpenVPX components designed to deliver uncompromised 100 Gbps data processing and information sharing across the platform. Fabric100 boards are built upon and are compatible with our proven Fabric40™ (40 GbE) and earlier technologies.

Trusted and Secure

Curtiss-Wright’s approach to embedded security deploys defense-in-depth and defense-in-breadth strategies to leverage the powerful security features inherent in commercial components with additionally added defense-grade security technologies. Our TrustedCOTS™ framework fully enables the security capabilities of commercial hardware and software technologies to protect applications and data from compromise. Additional software capabilities can be added for data-in-transit encryption and to establish security firewalls. This robust security approach aligns with risk management frameworks, cyber requirements, and secure boot standards, making it suitable for global deployments.