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The Navy plans a revolutionary upgrade of shipboard communications systems to handle voiceover-IP (VOIP) phone calls and converged voice, video and data traffic.
The IP convergence project will provide a significant increase in shipboard throughput, which will enhance warfighting capabilities for afloat forces, said Robert WoIborsky, program manager for network information assurance and enterprise services at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (Spawar).
Those ships rely on satellite communications and have data rates over a single satellite circuit that top out at 1.5 megabits/sec.
Spawar expects to complete the VOIP phase of...