At Fort Drum, New York, the U.S. Army operates a training centre dedicated to simulating military conflicts for U.S. troops in urban areas. Units such as the 10th Mountain Division use the Military Operations in Urbanised Terrain (MOUT) Site to simulate urban battlefield tactics complete with smoke effects, smells of war, mobile targets, explosions, and other battlefield effects. Fort Drum's application required bringing video/audio content from the MOUT site's many cameras back to a central command centre over distances up to 40 kilometres.
Network challenge
The U.S. Army and their team managing MOUT decided to work with SIGCOM, a systems integration company specialising in video, security, data, and telecommunications projects. It was SIGCOM's responsibility to install and support much of the project including an elaborate fibre optic cabling infrastructure supporting the audio, video, control systems, and the recording solutions capturing the video content from each exercise. There were a number of challenges they faced:
A Siqura fibre optic cable solution for national security
5 Sep 2010
