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MaxView To Manage Warfighter Access To U.S. Communications Network

Posted on: Monday, 13 October 2003, 06:00 CDT

BOSTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta-based ILC today announced that its MaxView(R) network control software has been selected by ITT Industries, Systems Division, Colorado Springs, Colo., to manage SATCOM assets in the U.S. Navy's satellite communications network. At six major teleports around the world, MaxView will automate the monitoring, control and provisioning of the satellite link over which deployed Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps troops access the U.S. Defense Information System Network (DISN).

Via satellite, U.S. troops access DISN services to transmit and receive critical military information, including reconnaissance video, surveillance photos, intelligence, and orders. The DoD Teleport Program aims to provide deployed warfighters with multiband, multimedia and worldwide DISN reach-back capabilities that far exceed the communications capabilities of today's warfighter.

MaxView plays an integral role in meeting the goals of the DoD Teleport Program. As the program's Teleport Management and Control Segment (TMCS), MaxView will provide automation at the worldwide teleport sites to allow for resource configuration and reconfiguration, system controller interfaces, nodal management and control for each Teleport component, and remote access to DISN and SATCOM management and control centers.

After an extensive formal evaluation, SPAWAR awarded the TMCS project to systems integrator ITT Industries, Systems Division, who chose ILC's MaxView as the M&C software that would best adapt to the wide range of equipment and associated services of the teleport system.

"For example, when the crew on an aircraft carrier requires video, data, and voice links to transmit and receive information with its command base," explains ILC's CEO Richard Graham, "Operators will use MaxView's circuit provisioning tool to dynamically reconfigure teleport equipment quickly and error-free."

"MaxView is a proven COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) solution that makes it simple for us to integrate the system into the Navy's secure facilities," said an ITT spokesperson. Systems integrator ITT Industries, Systems Division will implement MaxView at all six sites by April 2004.

ILC is providing MaxView demonstrations at MILCOM in Boston, Oct. 13-15, 2003, Booth 104.

About SPAWAR

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) provides information technology and space systems for today's Department of Defense activities, in order to enable current and future warfighters with knowledge superiority. SPAWAR develops, delivers and maintains effective, capable and integrated command, control, communications, computer, intelligence and surveillance systems. In addition, SPAWAR is the Chief Engineer and Architect for FORCEnet -- the Navy's transformational architecture for how Navy and Marine Corps elements will be linked with Joint, Allied, and Coalition forces through seamless, interoperable integration with the Department of Defense Global Information Grid. SPAWAR works closely with the acquisition command, PEO C4I & Space to lay the foundation for dramatic increases in current and future readiness, while simultaneously enabling the first glimpses of FORCEnet and a new era in warfighting capabilities. Visit the SPAWAR web site at http://www.spawar.navy.mil/ .

About ITT Industries, Systems Division

ITT Industries, Systems Division ( http://www.ittsystems.com/ ) located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, provides select Government, commercial, and international customers value-added, total worldwide systems solutions for their air and missile defense, air traffic control, communications, command and control, range, spacelift, and surveillance needs as well as full logistics support services for facilities and equipment.

About ILC

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ILC is a network control software and systems provider for commercial and government applications in the telecommunications, satellite and broadcast industries. Specializing in hybrid networks, ILC's MaxView Suite automates fault management, configures, schedules and allocates network resources, and provisions circuits for more than 400 worldwide clients, including NBC, Telmex, France Telecom, Echostar, Loral Skynet, Portugal Telecom, Iceland Telecom, and U.S. Department of Defense agencies. Please visit http://www.ilc.com/ for more information.

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