100 Gb/s RF Backbone
Abstract
The proliferation of video, voice, chat, and other important data-streams on the battlefield has driven a need for higher capacity, reliable, assured, and all-weather communications that are deployable on a wide range of air, ground, and maritime platforms. The goal of this High-Capacity Links technologies program was to demonstrate a 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) radio frequency (RF) backbone that could meet the anticipated mid-term (within 3-10 years) wireless networking capacity needs of deployed military forces. The primary focus of the program was a millimeter-wave (mmW) solution to provide high capacity and all-weather resiliency. The program developed the constituent subsystems (waveform generation, efficient power amplifiers, and receivers) and spatial multiplexing architectures to construct an all-weather mmW 100 Gb/s backbone at half the SWaP consumption of the current Optical RF Communications Adjunct (ORCA) system. Technology developed under this program transitioned to the Air Force.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- e955ad838811fd9892003e381f53895a