Alioth installed Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to provide a wireless communications bridge system at Gulf Islands National Seashore for the Department of the Interior National Park Service.
The installed Point-To-Point (PTP) and Point-To-
Multipoint (PTM) topology systems provided Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
telephone, Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), and data connectivity between nine (9)
existing Park buildings. The wireless radio system was composed of one (1) Motorola
5.4GHz PTP, one (1) Motorola 5.8GHz PTP (nine mile over water shot), one (1) Redline 5.8GHz PMP Base, four
(4) Redline 5.8GHz PMP terminals, and four (4) Cisco Aironet Head units. Each radio
was connected either to a flat panel, yagi, or parabolic antenna and protected from
potential lightning strike damage by installing lightning protection surge arrestor devices.
Wireless network security was provided by AES 256 encryption installed into the FIPS
140-2 compliant Motorola and Redline radios.
In order to visually monitor activities in critical areas, Alioth installed three (3) 
Vivotek
Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) Power over Ethernet (PoE) cameras on two (2) existing 80’
monopoles and one (1) existing 140’ tower. The cameras were protected from potential
lightning strike damage by installing lightning protection surge arrestor devices. The
cameras’ digital video and Internet Protocol (IP) control data were connected to the
wireless system.
At the conclusion of the installation, Alioth engineers conducted a Systems Operational
Verification Testing (SOVT), witnessed by the COTR, of the wireless system to
document its baseline performance and interoperability with existing Government
terminal equipment.
