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| New SCA HCLOS™ shown at SDR Forum |
| Monday, November 5, 2007 |
(Denver, CO, USA, November 5, 2007) Ultra Electronics Tactical Communication Systems Division (TCS), in collaboration with Communications Research Centre of Canada, announces the fielding of its latest generation AN/GRC-245A Software Defined Radio (SDR). The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) implementation of the radio, using the SCA V2.2 core framework developed by the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), provides increased flexibility and the opportunity for improved interoperability. The SCA implementation in the AN/GRC-245A radio supports multiple waveforms to suit the different operational roles demanded of the product.
The AN/GRC-245A was selected by the US Army and is fielded as part of the Increment-1 of the WIN-T program. The AN/GRC-245A SCA radio provides the high-capacity Line-of-Sight communication for the latest Joint Network Node (JNN) spiral of WIN-T. “With the recent fielding of the first high capacity SCA radios, the US Army has gained a significant increase in communications capacity and waveform flexibility”, said Claudio Lucente, Director of Marketing at Ultra Electronics – TCS.
“The new SCA-enabled radio from Ultra Electronics is a major advancement in radio development,” said Claude Bélisle, Vice-President of Satellite Communications and Radio Propagation for CRC. “CRC is a proud contributor to this radio project, which will offer end users the latest technology in terms of radio capability and re-programmability.”
The AN/GRC-245A supports up to 34Mb/s of traffic. With its built-in multiplexer the radio interfaces both Ethernet and Serial Traffic. It is also the most spectrally efficient radio of its class boasting more than 3 b/s/Hz.
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