{"id":11907,"date":"2018-09-26T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/26\/get-ready-to-ditch-miles-of-cables-this-will-give-marines-a-secure-lte-network-in-the-field\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:15:11","slug":"get-ready-to-ditch-miles-of-cables-this-will-give-marines-a-secure-lte-network-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/industry\/2018\/09\/26\/get-ready-to-ditch-miles-of-cables-this-will-give-marines-a-secure-lte-network-in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to ditch miles of cables \u2015 this will give Marines a secure LTE network in the field"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reporter Todd South shows you how Marines may get a signal from the show floor of Modern Day Marine 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. \u2015 For decades or longer, Marines tasked with setting up a command post<\/a> and ensuring that communications <\/a>were encrypted faced hours, if not a day\u2019s worth, of running cables through tents, hooking up individual crypto devices to nearly every piece of hardware <\/a>and constantly reloading crypto keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wasn\u2019t only a massive time suck, it also meant that few, if any now ubiquitous civilian devices such as smartphones and tablet computers could come near the tactical network, for fear of a break in the security bubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017 a tactical communications equipment company called PacStar showcased a Wi-Fi solution to that problem. By creating a simple user interface and hardware that incorporated a host of government-required systems, it put a 100-ft Wi-Fi bubble into the tactical mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\t