Adds Plug-and-Play USB Interface For Secure Access to Critical Combat Communications

Carlsbad, CA – ViaSat Inc. is introducing the VDC-800 Data Controller to offer secure IP and USB connections to warfighters on the tactical edge. The new product is part of a focus on using the ViaSat Data Controller (VDC) product family to create systems that help warfighters accomplish their missions. The VDC-800 advances the ViaSat "IP to the Tactical Edge" approach to warfighter communications by adding the high-speed, plug-and-play USB interface to the VDC product line. VDCs extend IP and TCP/IP networking to the soldier, sailor, airman, or marine on the leading edges of the battlespace.

Used with any current tactical radio, those in combat can connect the VDC-800 via USB to a computer or handheld device to run IP-based critical combat communications applications, such as Situational Awareness, whiteboard collaboration, chat, messaging, and email, almost as if they were at their own desktop computer. Warfighters can also use the VDC-800 to transmit core data elements for military interoperability, including Direct Fire Mission, Blue Force Tracking, surveillance results, and airspace deconfliction information (sharing flight activity information to increase air safety).

Ruggedized to MIL-STD-810F, the VDC-800 offers true interoperability and flexibility for any kind of mission. It features powerful error-correction to transmit maps, images, and other data over noisy half-duplex, low data rate radio communication channels. This USB Data Controller creates network-centric connections that link tactical edge warfighters to the Common Operational Picture.

"Now, any warfighter with a USB-equipped computer can be fully networked to the Global Information Grid,” said Jerry Goodwin, VP of ViaSat Network Systems. "The VDC-800 brings secure IP access to the many warfighters using narrowband radios on the edges of the battlespace."

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