Bittium Tactical Wireless IP Network™

Resilient, high-performance and mobile IP backbone network for real time situational awareness for command & control.

Superior Situational Awareness Across the Battlefield

With the software defined radio based Bittium Tactical Wireless IP Network (TAC WIN) system battlegroups can create high-data-rate wireless IP networks as a mobile backbone network to support command and control (C2) and sensor-to-shooter wideband data transmission during military operations. Compared to existing tactical data link networks, flexibility to use the Bittium solution in different frequency bands and network structures, including MANET, provides cost effectiveness, ease of use, and efficiency without bottlenecks.

Wide Bandwidth & Low Latency

Modular & Scalable

Quickly Self-Healing & Survivable

Automated Adaptation of Routing

Use Case Examples

“The high capacity, flexibility and seamless interoperability make Bittium TAC WIN the perfect wireless IP backbone network for commanding the mobile troops of the Army”

COLONEL EERO VALKOLA, INSPECTOR OF SIGNALS, ARMY COMMAND, FINNISH DEFENCE FORCES

System Benefits

Elements of the TAC WIN System

Technical Specifications

Tactical Router
  • Routing and waveform processing unit
  • Operating voltage: 10 - 60Vdc
  • Temperature range
    -40 - 55 °C (operating)
    -40 - 70 °C (storage)
  • Ingress protection class: IP67
  • Dimensions 223 x 356 x 400 mm (h x w x d)
  • Weight 19,4 kg
  • Tested with MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461G
  • Passive cooling (no fans)

Interfaces

  • 3 x TAC WIN Radio units
  • 4 x WAN (2 x RJ45 1000BASE-T / 2 x Fiber 1000BASE-LX)
  • 4 x LAN (1000BASE-T) with PoE (802.3af)
  • 8 x ITU-T G991.2 (GSHDSL)
  • 4 x serial/audio connector
  • 2 x USB
  • GPS in/out
  • ERASE button and ON/OFF -switch

Routing services

  • Custom OLSR in TACTICAL network
  • Custom multicast in TACTICAL network
  • OSPF / BGP routing for external connections
  • Automatic IP address configuration
  • VLANs and configurable bridges
  • QoS: Traffic classifying and priority queues (8 queues)
  • SNMP v3
  • Radius server support
  • AAA
  • 802.1X port authentication
  • Call admission control

Tactical VoIP service

  • Integrated Bittium Tough VoIP Service™

Other services

  • Network configuration with single configuration file
  • SNMP interface
  • IPsec tunneling
  • Netflow
  • Firewall
  • 3 different user levels
  • Easy to use local web GUI

Radio Head I
  • Frequency band 225-400 MHz
  • Signal bandwidth 5 MHz
  • Data throughput with
  • Bittium TAC WIN Waveform: 12Mbps
  • Supports 2x2 MIMO
  • Channel raster 250 kHz
  • TAC WIN Waveform Tx power: 2 x 4 W
  • Operating voltage: 10-60Vdc
  • Temperature range
    -40 - 55 °C (operating)
    -40 - 70 °C (storage)
  • Ingress protection class IP67
  • Dimensions 160 x 256 x 454 mm (h x w x d)
  • Weight 18 kg
  • Tested with MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461G
  • Passive cooling (no fans)
Radio Head III
  • Frequency band 1350-2400 MHz
  • Signal bandwidth 5/10 MHz
  • Data throughput with Bittium TAC WIN Waveform: 26Mbps
  • Channel raster 250 kHz
  • TAC WIN Waveform Tx power: 4 W
  • Operating voltage: 10-60Vdc
  • Temperature range
    -40 - 55 °C (operating)
    -40 - 70 °C (storage)
  • Ingress protection class IP67
  • Dimensions 160 x 256 x 454 mm (h x w x d)
  • Weight 18 kg
  • Tested with MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461G
  • Passive cooling (no fans
Radio Head IV

RH-IV and RH-IV High Gain

  • Frequency band 4400-5000 MHz
  • Signal bandwidth 5/10/20 MHz
  • Data throughput with Bittium TAC WIN Waveform: 50Mbps
  • Channel raster 250 kHz
    TAC WIN Waveform Tx power: 1250 mW
  • Operating voltage: 16-60Vdc
  • Temperature range
    -40 - 55 °C (operating)
    -40 - 70 °C (storage)
  • Ingress protection class IP67
  • Dimensions 385 x 520 x 67 mm (h x w x d)
  • Weight 10 kg
  • Tested with MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461G
  • Passive cooling (no fans)
  • One hybrid cable interface (power and data)

RH-IV variant: Integrated patch antenna with 50° beam steering (gain 19dBi / beamwidth 9° / vertical polarization). Can be used with external antenna.

RH-IV High Gain variant: Integrated fixed beam antenna with 9° beam (gain 23dBI / vertical polarization) and external rotator control interface.

TAC WIN Waveform
  • High-data-rate
  • Frequency hopping, adaptive modulation, MANET routing
  • Independent from GNSS using Bittium Air Interface Synchronization (AIS)
  • Optimized interference cancellation algorithms
  • Supported bandwidths: 5 / 10 / 20 MHz
  • QoS based network radio resource management
  • Supports a large number of network subscribers. Up to 100 simultaneous nodes in the same 2-hop wireless MANET network. Up to 1000 active nodes in the wired and wireless IP network.
Tactical Network Management

Bittium Tactical Network Management system provides intuitive and visual tools for tactical network planning, real-time management of the networks and performance analysis based on big data collected from the network. This enables quick and effective deployment of the networks and successful operations.

Tools

  • Bittium Tactical Network Planner Tool
  • Bittium Tactical Network Manager Tool
  • Bittium Network Analytics Tool

Supported networks and nodes

  • Bittium TAC WIN
  • Bittium Tough Comnode
  • Bittium Tough SDR Vehicular
  • Bittium Tough SDR Handheld

Supported services

  • Bittium Tough VoIP Service

Supported waveforms

  • Bittium TAC WIN Waveform
  • Bittium Narrowband Waveform
  • ESSOR High Data Rate Waveform
 

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