Fuse today announced that it has earned a 2024 Military + Aerospace Electronics Innovators Award for its Network Provisioner capability. Fuse’s Network Provisioner is an optional software utility that uses the company’s CORE® multi-function network controller to collect configuration information from a platform’s mission computer and automatically set up all network devices with those unique configurations. The result is the rapid enablement of a platform’s networking capability and the extension of a legacy platform’s usefulness for the current mission environment. A panel of esteemed judges from the aerospace and defense community recognized Fuse as a Silver honoree.
“Fuse’s Network Provisioner makes network configuration per platform significantly easier, faster, and more secure, providing one more advantage for warfighter networking and communications in the battlespace,” said Sumner Lee, Fuse CEO. “We are honored that this capability is recognized by Military + Aerospace Electronics as one of the most innovative products impacting the aerospace and defense community this year.”
Silver awards recognize innovations that, “resulted in not just incremental improvement, but in marked improvement over previous methods employed, approaches taken, or products/systems used.”
Military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and other robotic vehicles have centralized mission computers that provide operators with the ability to see and control the battlefield with the advanced situational awareness and combat systems necessary to complete their missions. Each mission computer stores and publishes subsystem configurations for, and serves as the backbone of, many critical systems. The configurations they store are unique to that platform and play a pivotal role in the functionality, performance, and reliability of these network systems.
Designed for warfighter network managers, Network Provisioner eliminates the need to set up, or pre-configure, each network device on a platform. Instead, Network Provisioner ingests mission computer configuration information and dynamically reformats the configuration information into a device- and vendor-agnostic data scheme before reformatting to the formats appropriate to each module in the Tactical Edge Network (TEN) stack. Unlike router templates, where one template works with all other routers on the platform, Network Provisioner delivers templates to layers 1-4 in the OSI stack. The flexible, intuitive software utility is hardware vendor-agnostic and works with both legacy and modern mission computers, supporting advanced network configurations for every legacy platform.
For more on Network Provisioner, contact the Fuse team.
