TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), a provider of wireless communications, has been awarded an additional $8m in funding from the US Marine Corps for the TCS Wireless Point-to-Point Link (WPPL) systems.
The WPPL systems provide deployed marines with secure point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transmission of voice, video and data communications over terrestrial microwave radio links, the company said.
Under the award, TCS will provide field support representatives and extended maintenance warranty support. In addition, it will supply spare parts for the RF and network packages of the WPPL systems, including sector and directional antennas, modems, routers, router cards and router modules.
According to TCS, the WPPL provides marines with last-mile communications and allows them to extend their local area network (LAN) to forward-deployed locations by extending services over terrestrial microwave radio links. It enables non-secure internet protocol router, secret internet protocol router, voice over IP, video and defense switched network transmission of vital information.
The order was awarded by the army project manager for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (PM WIN-T) Commercial Satellite Terminal Program (CSTP) and through the US Army’s $5bn World-Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS) contract vehicle.
Michael Bristol, senior vice president of government solutions for TCS, said: Our WPPL system has proven to be a workhorse in-theater. We continue to field these systems on a regular basis and support the forward-deployed warfighter with critical last-mile communications capability.
