Fortress Technologies BreadCrumb Wireless Network manual Case Study Military Exercise in Thailand

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Chapter 8. Case Study: Military Exercise in Thailand

Rajant BreadCrumb devices were used by the Thai Military as an integral part of a Joint Air Land Sea Amphibious Assault Exercise last week in Pattaya, Thailand. The beach assault took place at a Thai Naval Base and Thai media from a major news channel was present to document the exercise.

Figure 8-1. Joint Exercise Network

There was a BreadCrumb XL on each of two ships, an XL on a Black Hawk helicopter, an XL on the observation bluff, and multiple SEs deployed as needed. The observation center was set up 2km away from the beach, on a bluff overlooking the bay. There were two ships at sea, one 2km away from the bluff with a camera streaming live feed of the ship’s control center (Mission Control Center) and another 10km away from the bluff with a camera streaming live feed of the landing deck for the helicopters. There was a camera on one helicopter as well, streaming live video as it performed its duties. Finally, there was a UAV flown that was equipped with video to its base station. Using a new addition to the Rajant product line, a Video Encoder XL, the analog video stream was encoded to MPEG-4 and sent over the BreadCrumb network to be viewed by anyone on the network.

A total of eight Rajant BreadCrumb devices were used to create the portable, wireless, secure, meshed network. Through this network, the Thai Prime Minister and Commander of the Joint Supreme Command were able to monitor each stage of the assault by viewing streaming video from the helicopter, flight deck, UAV and ship based command center on two big screen televisions placed at the observation center. Most impressive was the consistent 10Km link to the far away ship and the automatic meshing of the XL and transmission of video from an on-the-go helicopter. The assault exercise was deemed a huge success by the Thai military, Prime Minister, Commander of the Joint Supreme Command and all others involved.

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Contents Rajant Corporation For the BreadCrumb Wireless Network ReleasePage Table of Contents Using BCAdmin TroubleshootingConfiguration Examples List of Figures List of TablesPreface Purpose and ScopeUser Information Introduction What is a BreadCrumb?Mesh a Definition Mobility through MeshingBreadCrumb Devices Mesh by Channel and Essid ExampleMeshing Example 1 Full Connectivity Issues Resolved New Features Performance / Process ImprovementsKnown Issues Upgrading to VersionInstalling / Upgrading BCAdmin Upgrading BreadCrumb FirmwareUpgrading to Version Version 3 Power Input Flash Update Procedure for Version 2 and Version 3 SystemsUpgrading to Version XLV XLE ModelsBreadCrumb ME ModelsAvailable BreadCrumb Models BreadCrumb WE External ConnectorsBreadCrumb SE BreadCrumb WE External ConnectorsBreadCrumb XL BreadCrumb SE External ConnectorsBreadCrumb XLV BreadCrumb XL External ConnectorBreadCrumb XLE BreadCrumb XLV External ConnectorsBreadCrumb XLE External Connectors front Addressing Deployment ConsiderationsChannel Assignments BreadCrumb Device AddressesPhysical Placement and Other Considerations Line Of SightDeployment Considerations Device power To Device power Distance Best-Case Distances by Radio PowerDistance Weather InterferenceAltitude Screen Layout Using BCAdminTopology Area Using BCAdminBreadCrumb Device Name Anatomy of the BreadCrumb BoxAnatomy of the Client Box Time Since Last UpdateNumber of Peers Number of Clients802.11b Channel Line Color Anatomy of a Connection LineBCAdmin Line Styles Legend Redundant Connection Example Info AreaLink Detail Tabs Configuring Individual BreadCrumbsName General SettingsType LocationBattery Warning minutes Using BCAdmin ColorManual GPS Settings Latitude and Longitude AirFortress Encryption AES-256 and Set Access IDAccess Point Radio SettingsChannel MeshReachback Interface Reachback SettingsNone EthernetRadio 2 ad hoc Using BCAdmin RadioMode AutomaticDisabled Using BCAdmin Gateway IngressAlternate Gateway WEP Key11. BreadCrumb Properties Forwarding Tab Forwarding SettingsExample Port Forwarding Configuration for a Web Server SecurityAccess Control Lists ACLs WEPKey Allow by default deny only forbidden devices Deny by default allow only permitted devicesRegistering AirFortress AES-256 Encryption with AirFortress14. Set Access ID Window Setting the Access IDZeroizing the Access ID Encrypting Wired TrafficHarris SecNET11 Enabling/Disabling AirFortress EncryptionBCAdmin Preferences SecNet11 Key FillingBreadCrumb inactivity threshold seconds Mapping with Fugawi Tracker Configuration Examples Connecting Remote Wired LANsUnencrypted Point-to-Multipoint Encrypted Point-to-PointConfiguration Examples Convoy with UAV-Based Camera for Forward ObservationEncrypting a Video Feed Configuration Examples BreadCrumb Wireless Network TroubleshootingIndividual BreadCrumbs Sporadic Network ConnectivityBreadCrumb Device Cannot Connect to Bcwn Sporadic Network Connectivity IssuesRestoring Default Settings Factory Reset BCAdminTroubleshooting BreadCrumb-BCWN Connectivity IssuesFactory Reset Button Joint Exercise Network Case Study Military Exercise in ThailandCase Study Military Exercise in Thailand BCAdmin screen during exercise showing BreadCrumb networkBalloon with Camera and BreadCrumb Glossary BCAdmin802.11b BreadCrumb / BreadCrumb DeviceMAC Address PeerPending peer Reachback Appendix A. Status Indicator LED Color Blinking/Solid StatusTable A-1. LED Status Indications Appendix B. Radio Frequencies 802.11b Channel Frequency GHzTable B-1 .11b Channel Frequency Table Appendix C. Customer Service