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With the command and control system BNET True Software Defined Radio (SDR), the Bundeswehr has the opportunity to create the conditions for victorious armed forces with real innovation and sustainable digitization. Extraordinarily high data rates of up to 100mbit/s enable tactical collaboration in resilient mesh ad-hoc networks (MANET) up to association level. Due to the comprehensive interoperability, the BNET SDR, manufactured in Germany, offers itself as a European radio device solution for the digitization of land-based operations.

The BNET command radios are a new generation of True SDR capable of not only ensuring uninterrupted and interoperable communications, but also ensuring information superiority in land-based operations. The challenge here is no longer collecting information, but rather making information available at the right level and in real time if possible. The high number of sensors in the entire electromagnetic spectrum generates an immense amount of data in all tactical activities, while opposing means of electronic warfare permanently jam parts of the spectrum. In this big data battlespace, your own management radio must be able to assert itself.

The prerequisite for this is a communication network that enables high data rates and at the same time is resilient in the face of enemy measures in the electromagnetic spectrum. The software-based True SDR radios of the BNET series from DND-Digital use international standards for maximum interoperability, even with legacy devices, but differ significantly from conventional SDR technology. Due to the patented Multi-Channel-Reception (MCR) technology for parallel receiving and transmitting on frequencies from VHF to UHF up to the S-Band, BNET True SDR enable data rates of up to 100 Mbit/s and can record up to six videos per device simultaneously transmitted in HD quality. With this technology, BNET True SDR can simultaneously receive and transmit video, voice and data communication in a given frequency spectrum and not just individually on individual frequencies.

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With data rates of up to 100MBit/s, the software-based BNET SDR make the Big Data Battlefield manageable. (Graphic: DND)

With integrated spectrum analyzers, BNET True SDR are also particularly suitable for the fight for information superiority in the big data battlespace, as they permanently filter the available spectrum and only use those frequency ranges that are not disturbed by the opponent. The frequency ranges available for units and formations can be defined via the intuitive network management system (NMS), thereby complying with frequency management specifications.

In addition, the multi-channel reception technology is supplemented by a dynamic spectrum allocation (DSA), which dynamically allocates the frequencies available in the frequency band to the individual entities depending on the detected enemy electronic warfare measures and their own workload.

BNET True SDR are available in different configurations for flying and driving platforms as well as dismounted forces. With the Nano variant, the BNET functions are also available for networking unmanned systems or soldier systems, paving the way for the creation of the transparent battlefield based on automated airborne reconnaissance systems.

BNET radios create particularly strong networks. In a large-scale test in cooperation with an established partner of the Bundeswehr for deployable networks, BNET True SDR maintained a resilient MANET with over 250 mobile participants under combat conditions in real terrain. Even if the technology theoretically allows for significantly larger networks, this MANET was already larger than that of conventional SDRs by factors. With this new dimension of MANET capability, previous bottlenecks in communication are also a thing of the past. Individual command radios, which function as nodes and represent unnecessary weak points in the hierarchical structure of current communication, no longer exist in such MANETs.

The preparations for the production of the BNET devices in Germany are meanwhile on the home stretch. While the transfer of knowledge for the manufacture and further development of the devices in Germany has been completed, the preparation for production in Germany will be completed by the end of 2021.

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With the nano variant, the capabilities of the BNET SDR are also available for unmanned systems and soldier systems. (Graphic: DND)

Further information on the BNET guidance radio system can be found on the DND-Digital website:Command and Reconnaissance – Dynamit Nobel Defense GmbH (dn-defence.com)

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DND digital
Dynamit Nobel Defense GmbH
E-mail: digital@dn-defence.com
www.dn-defence.com