The Cormorant Communications Network is a military
wide area communications network implemented by the
British Army sometime around 2000. It has also been adopted by certain
Royal Air Force units in limited deployments.
Role
The network provides end-to-end wide area communications using the same
Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol that underpins many late-20th Century civilian telecommunications networks. It supports voice traffic routed over IP (although this is distinct from Internet VoIP) and can also support IPv4 and IPv6 BTDS traffic.
Criticisms
On 10 September 2009 the
MoD
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announced
MoD announcement
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.
References
British military radio
British Army equipment
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