Chapter 8. Case Study: Military Exercise in Thailand

the fifth and final BreadCrumb was placed in a moving vehicle at the foot of the mountain providing NetMeeting capabilities with military personnel back at the base.

Figure 8-4. Balloon with Camera and BreadCrumb

Figure 8-5. Soldier communicating over BCWN using Microsoft NetMeeting

Rajant employees also returned to Phuket, where Rajant BreadCrumb devices had been left this past January to aid in the tsunami relief effort. The BreadCrumbs were all operational and working, with the exception of one that had been directly struck by lightning. Each remaining BreadCrumb device had operated continually without user intervention, with the entire network supporting up to 70 users at a time.

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Fortress Technologies BreadCrumb Wireless Network manual Balloon with Camera and BreadCrumb