Alioth designed, installed, and integrated a mesh network topology for the 49TH Holloman Air Force Base Office of Emergency Management (HAFB OEM). The mesh network provided the primary voice, data and video teleconference means for the 49TH HAFB OEM, during local emergencies, in support of civil affairs elements, first responders, and local Emergency Management training.
The turnkey solution connected streaming video, voice, and data from three (3) pre-existing towers to mobile vehicles traveling within the boundaries of approximately 100 square miles back to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) through an infrastructure of self supporting communications towers. The scalable system was designed to integrate into the existing Holloman AFB Global Information Gateway (GIG) tactical network.
In order to extend the system “out of
Bounds”, Alioth configured a mobile hub with similar Base Connectivity
as the primary system. This setup enables a mobile vehicle to come on
site and create an “adhoc” network Access Point (AP) outside the
umbrella of the main system. All mobile vehicles operating with the hub
vehicle can 
connect
to the hub on the mobile vehicle. This vehicle utilizes a
Point-to-Point (PTP) 300 Megabits per second (Mbps) non-line-of-sight
secure link back to the base GIG. This current system can incorporate
one (1) to twenty (20) mobile vehicles without data throughput
degradation. These vehicles are able to connect to any node within the
main or extended mesh network. Thus vehicles are able to establish
connection regardless of the location within the boundaries of the
local or extended operating area.
When a vehicle is operating within line
of sight of a tower it had a usable rate connection of 10 Mbps. This
system provided seamless voice bridging between radio, Voice over
Internet Protocol, Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and
Land-Mobile Radio (LMR) 
networks
(UHF, VHF etc).
The primary system was designed to
operate in the Federal licensed band of 4.4-4.9Ghz frequency range and
has 256 bit encryption conforming to FIPS 140-2. The system has current
accreditation Authority to Operate (ATO) on any Department of Defense
Network and provides all documentation
on said ATO.
