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Providing the most comprehensive multimedia platform available today, Harris enables federal agencies and the military to efficiently acquire, manage and distribute visual and audio information from a multitude of formats and networks for analysis, reporting and information-sharing purposes.

Military bases worldwide are looking at ways to update their communications infrastructure with new technologies that will allow them to more efficiently operate. When the upgrade requirements include video, audio and data communications, Harris Corporation has the solution. Harris -- as the leading supplier of global broadcast and government communications solutions -- has the expertise to design and deliver integrated COTS solutions to bases, enabling them to provide modern communications systems for voice, video and data communications including the ability to ingest, deliver, and disseminate high-resolution video in real time for training, information, and intelligence purposes.

Most base infrastructure legacy systems were designed to be either voice- or datacentric, and in many cases, only support legacy interfaces such as T1 or E1 network protocol. Harris brings to the market industry-leading solutions that are voice-, video- and data-centric and has the expertise to design solutions that bridge legacy infrastructures into modern IP-centric environments.

Eliminate Bandwidth Constraints

Bandwidth constraints can be a constant source of frustration when command centers are attempting to download highresolution files. Often, it is the minute detail in an image that is crucial to understanding the larger picture.

Harris offers state-of-the-art video encoding/decoding solutions that allow video analysts to ingest, distribute and archive high-resolution images, frame-byframe, while annotating specific information for later review.

High-resolution Video -- Instantaneously

For military bases with standard-definition infrastructure, Harris offers the solutions and integration expertise to upgrade their existing capabilities to high-definition -- simply by integrating a sophisticated encoder/decoder solution into the legacy video network.

Not only is high-resolution video important for analysis purposes, it is also necessary when there is a requirement to distribute it over closed circuit television. When video is being distributed to many locations around a military base, or between bases, it is critical that it be of the highest quality, or it loses its informational value.

The ability to receive and distribute highresolution video is also critical for video analysis in a tactical environment. Analysts must have the ability to zoom in on the detail in a video frame, and this is only operationally possible when they are able to review high-definition video.

Mass Notification Systems

Recently on a military base in Southern California, wild fires burned electrical lines, preventing families from receiving an evacuation message on their televisions or radios. Harris can help military base personnel to provide emergency messaging in critical situations such as this, by providing innovative solutions to reach critical masses through multiple mediums over the air.

Harris can design a military base television station with mass notification capabilities from the ground up. With the Harris ChannelOne TV in a Box, users can benefit through reduced time to air by utilizing tools that automate manual processes and deliver a commercial look and feel to military base television broadcasting services.

Or, where there is already a broadcast communications infrastructure in place, Harris can provide mass notification systems that synchrocast the programming aired on an existing military base television station through a number of transmission mediums to ensure that military personnel and families receive critical information in times of need.

Broadcasts can be synchrocast through multiple transmission mediums including Fixed and Mobile (Flyaway) AM/FM Transmitters, IPTV, media streaming over the internet, Podcasts, video-enabled cell phones or Mobile Pedestrian Handhelds.

Transition to Digital Networks from Analog Environments

Military test ranges struggle with outdated analog equipment which is near or past end of life. In many cases manufacturers no longer support or sell the analog equipment. Legacy analog equipment is becoming more difficult for vendors to find spares parts for and repair resulting in higher cost of ownership. In the commercial world, broadcasters have been forced to cut over to digital environment. Digital environments make it is easier to transfer to portable medium or permanent archiving storage. Additionally, digital is less expensive and has higher quality and better resolution. For more information download the Video Motion Imagery Surveillance Systems brochure (pdf).

Media Asset Management on Military Test Ranges

Video is an underutilized resource across most government agencies. Solving the problem of managing available media and sensor based data sets is central to the future of video and imagery within the government. There is a vast and growing need to collect, manage, analyze/exploit and disseminate video assets within military test ranges and on other bases. However; the infrastructures, workflows and exploitation tools available are slow, outdated and expensive to maintain and operate.

When you add video to an already complex problem -- sheer volume of data, number of video formats to ingest and exploit, and a need to fuse imagery assets with video - the overall workflow processes must be improved. Harris provides the workflow processes and technologies that can merge these two worlds together allowing customers to leverage available assets and make better decisions.

For more information download the Advanced Communications Solutions for Military Base Infrastructures brochure (pdf).