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PORT OPERATIONS • Harsh coastal environments: Weather and temperature a packet-by-packet basis. Connections are made and rated be- e xtremes are common to seaport environments, and tween 50 to 200 times per second. Instead of each BreadCrumb the y can wreak havoc on wired and some wireless only communicating with centralized access points, they are all systems. Most manufacturers do not offer able to share information back and forth in a highly intercon- industrial-grade equipment. Rajant BreadCrumb nected web of communications.

enclosures are made from billet aluminum and are Rajant’s patented peer-to-peer InstaMesh technology per- designed to meet IP67 (dust proof/water proof). forms real-time evaluation of network links to direct traffc via the fastest pathways between any wired, wireless, or in-mo-

Rajant’s Solution tion points. A completely distributed Layer 2 protocol elimi-

Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh private wireless network gives ports nates controller node or single point of failure. The network the ability to rapidly deploy the fully mobile, highly adapt- instantaneously redirects traffc via the next best available link able, and secure connectivity they require, powering a net- if any one path is compromised or obstructed, creating a fully work that works autonomously to deliver robust applications redundant, self-healing network.

in real time. Kinetic Mesh enables this by giving operators the ability to transform virtually any asset, fxed or moving, into Military Grade / NSA-Certifed network infrastructure. Deploying Rajant’s ruggedized, multi- All military communication products that are entrusted to radio BreadCrumb nodes, equipped with InstaMesh network- process classifed data are required to have undergone NSA ing software, directly on the asset – be it a vehicle, quay crane, certifcation processes prior to being used in the feld. The NSA material handling equipment, surveillance camera, or drone certifcation process is extensive, requiring products to meet – essentially turns that asset into a network node. the most stringent of security requirements. The certifcation

In practical terms, each transceiver in each BreadCrumb process also requires continuous review, documentation, and maintains multiple redundant connections. New connections inspection stages to ensure that all requirements are met. Ac- are formed without having to drop a connection. All connec- cording to Rigby, this is particularly important. “The NSA cer- tions are live. Each node manages its own routings by evaluat- tifcation process typically takes well over a year and requires ing things like transmission speed, signal-to-noise ratio, signal engineers that are knowledgeable of this process to success- strength, retries and throughput. Routing decisions are made on fully receive NSA certifcation. Rajant was the frst network

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