Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) used for reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting, and assessment required an upgrade for Ethernet switching capabilities for onboard communications and sensor payload equipment. Learn more!

The military and aerospace market maintains an insatiable appetite for smaller, lighter, and cheaper. Recent technological breakthroughs in SWaP-C reduction have yielded the introduction of USFF mission computer and networking systems.

This white paper presents a strategic framework for addressing obstacles to efficient communications and how best to maintain seamless connectivity through the utilization of open standards-based, field-proven Curtiss-Wright hardware and software.

Curtiss-Wright has experience on a wide variety of platforms and missions using the same COTS equipment in both development and operational applications.

Curtiss-Wright has developed Fabric100, a complete end-to-end ecosystem that features 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity between rugged OpenVPX modules and system components.

A military systems integrator received a government contract to upgrade the computer networking electronics onboard a small fleet of ground combat vehicles. The contract would demonstrate increased network capacity, resiliency, and convergence for the warfighter.

The white paper discusses the various formats of Ethernet used in the embedded market as well as the copper and optical interface standards.