ESSOR continues its advance - an unstoppable force of supreme connectivity - while New Zealand goes on a communications splurge and India taps Israel for new radios. Early April saw Bittium announce a purchase order from the Finnish Defence Forces to port the European Secure Software Defined Radio (ESSOR) waveform into the latter's TOUGH SDR radios. In December 2018 the company and its customer concluded an agreement to procure handheld and vehicular versions of the transceiver. Covering a 30MHz-2.5GHz waveband, the TOUGH SDR Handheld - and the TOUGH SDR Vehicular two channel radio with the same parameters - include Bittium's Narrowband Waveform (BNW), ESSOR and the firm's TAC WIN waveform. BNW supports networks of up to 25 nodes and is typically used for voice communications. TAC WIN provides higher data rates and employs a tactical IP network, hosting up to 1,000 nodes on a single network and optimised for theatre/operational-sized deployments. It provides bandwidth choices of 5, 10 and 20MHz. The TAC WIN waveform can function in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environment; a useful attribute when electronic attacks are mounted on the 1.5-1.6GHz waveband such services routinely rely on.
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