Video Teleconferencing Capabilities
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Video Teleconferencing room with all required equipment.
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Today's VTC technology is simply astonishing, giving equal clarity across town or around the globe. At the speed of light, you can connect with Iraq to discuss combat operations, conduct live training with service members across the U.S. or host commanders' meetings. With these highly advanced video conferencing systems you stay connected in real time whenever your schedule demands.
Some of the features you will see in a VTC suite are touch screen controls, crystal-clear plasma displays and camera systems. With the installation of lighting, electrical components, and strategic network integration with cameras and other systems, your video teleconference equipment can provide multifunctional performance for a number of applications.
"Satellite communication from a moving vehicle is now practical," said Charlie Crawford, vice-president of technical operations for Lanham, MD-based CritiCom, a leader in the VTC industry and one of the Army’s prime suppliers. "He is referring to the ISEC Compact Mobile Video (MV), which is packaged in deployable configurations that support VTC across the globe with just a few cables and a small antenna placed on the roof of the vehicle. Now commanders moving across the battlefield can send and receive live images to and from forward-deployed troops or communicate directly with headquarter operations in distant locations." (www.special-operations-technology.com/article)
A new VTC product introduced by CritiCom is the ISEC-323 Internet Protocol (IP) switch, which is TEMPEST-approved and will allow the IP user to simply throw a switch to select between secure and non-secure networks. That’s a significant improvement for the military, as far as ease of use—just to be able to flip a switch and go from secure to non-secure, and have complete fiber-optic isolation which provides the flexibility to select the level of security on a call-by-call basis while still ensuring the communications security needed for command and control are maintained. (www.special-operations-technology.com/article)
