The brand new Catalyst ESS9300: Remodeling essential army communications by way of open requirements

As we speak I’m glad to unveil the brand new Catalyst ESS9300 Embedded Collection swap primarily based on open requirements adopted by the US Division of Protection (DoD) for constructing the following era of communications programs for his or her area operations. Adoption of those requirements will assist the army cut back its dependency on proprietary level options, which can cut back prices, allow higher interoperability, and make deployment simpler and sooner.

The army adopted SOSA (Sensor Open Methods Structure), C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Requirements (CMOSS), and OpenVPX requirements to handle the challenges that proprietary programs introduced akin to restricted interoperability, safety vulnerabilities, lengthy improvement cycles, and restricted scalability. The adoption of SOSA, CMOSS and OpenVPX helps the army modernize its communications programs, and addresses the problems they had been dealing with by selling interoperability, lowering prices, accelerating improvement cycles, and bettering safety. These requirements help the discount of dimension, weight and energy of communications programs whereas rising their flexibility and adaptableness.

The brand new Catalyst ESS9300 Embedded Collection

The brand new Catalyst ESS9300 Embedded Collection swap aligns with SOSA, CMOSS, and VPX requirements. It runs Cisco IOS XE software program which brings within the richness of enterprise grade networking function units for these army use instances. IOS XE additionally brings superior safety capabilities akin to Layer 2 encryption, gadget authentication, port safety, and community segmentation which are crucial to guard their essential infrastructure and communications, and superior networking capabilities akin to EIGRP for sustaining dependable communications by shortly recovering from community topology adjustments, akin to hyperlink failures.

Catalyst ESS9300 Embedded Collection swap is constructed utilizing Cisco Safe Growth Lifecycle and helps Cisco Reliable Applied sciences. This protects our prospects towards counterfeit {hardware}, maintains software program integrity and allows safe communications.

The brand new VPX3-623 Swap Module

We’re additionally asserting that, working collectively with our companion Curtiss-Wright, we’re constructing the standards-based VPX3-623 swap module of which the brand new Catalyst ESS9300 swap varieties the technological spine. That is the primary time that Cisco switching can be out there within the VPX type issue. To type the VPX3-623, Catalyst ESS9300 suits in a Curtiss-Wright developed service card, and collectively they slot in a rugged VPX chassis. This chassis goes inside army automobiles to supply essential safe communications even within the harshest battlefield circumstances.

The VPX3-623 delivers the options that floor and airborne community designers want and count on for speaking each in and out of doors of the system chassis whereas considerably bettering community safety, flexibility, and management on the tactical edge for CMOSS and SOSA aligned programs.

As the primary ruggedized purpose-built swap compliant with these requirements and supporting essential communications and cybersecurity requirements akin to FIPS 140 encryption, the joint resolution can be certified to fulfill MIL-STD-810H environmental ruggedization necessities and ship an array of community switching capabilities not beforehand out there on VPX {hardware}.

Along with bringing extensively used enterprise-class, hardware-based switching know-how to CMOSS/SOSA aligned embedded ecosystems, VPX3-623’s safety certifications will allow it to be securely deployed on Authorities networks and migrate NSA-approved Industrial Options for Categorised (CSfC) information encryption options to new type components.

Cisco embedded networking portfolio

The brand new Catalyst ESS9300 VPX swap joins our intensive embedded networking household, comprising of different switches and routers that stretch our industrial portfolio. Our embedded portfolio affords a variety of superior networking options designed to combine seamlessly into numerous environments, together with industrial, army, and transportation purposes. These merchandise present strong, safe, and versatile networking capabilities tailor-made to fulfill the distinctive calls for of mission-critical operations.

The Cisco embedded networking portfolio is ideally suited to companions to construct customized options on account of its mixture of superior options, flexibility, and strong help. Utilizing their business experience, technical information, and complementary applied sciences, Cisco companions can use the portfolio to construct tailor-made, scalable, and revolutionary options that meet particular operational necessities.

Study extra

Cisco and Curtiss-Wright are asserting the VPX3-623 product on the AUSA 2024 Annual Assembly and Exposition in Washington, DC. In case you plan to be on the convention, you’ll want to go to Curtiss-Wright at sales space 2143 to get an illustration of the product. For extra info, please evaluate the press launch, watch the announcement video beneath, learn the white paper, go to VPX3-623 and Catalyst ESS9300 pages, or attain us for a free no-obligation session.

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