Military Portal Replication.

Infonic Geo-Replicator – The Leader in Military Portal Replication.

The world’s most advanced military organizations seek to provide their personnel with uninterrupted access to information - regardless of their location.

Wherever the 21st century soldier is deployed he or she must be supported by tightly integrated information systems that ensure uninterrupted real-time access to operational data and provide a common operating picture to all units within the theater of operations.

Infonic is the leading global provider of portal replication solutions to the world’s largest military organizations. Infonic provides the optimal solution for ensuring uninterrupted access to mission critical information anytime and anywhere.

Infonic’s software makes it possible for military users to actively share information within a C3I environment across networks that have high latency, limited bandwidth or intermittent availability such as satellite, HF, UHF. Infonic’s patented technology called Epsilon enables effective collaboration over low bandwidth networks by replicating files between locations in a highly compressed manner.

Defense organizations are becoming more mobile and more reliant on remote Virtual Mobile Datacenters. Infonic Geo-Replicator improves the portability and flexibility of these VMD datacenters so they can be rapidly deployed in the field and to manage information.

Portal replication for the US Marine Corps

• Extract from article in Jane's Defence Weekly 8 July 2009 - "The Defence IT Crowd", Adam Baddeley, JDW correspondent, ©JDW all rights reserved

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Long term struggles with limited bandwidth have led militaries to understandably concentrate on ensuring information gets to its destination as quickly as possible and in the required volumes.

As data rates go up, particularly for IT networks with high throughput, a new challenge is arising: storage.

The US DoD, for example, believes there are on average eight copies of any one file stored individually on the network, driving storage requirements upward, and efficiency savings are being sought.

As a consequence, miltaries are beginning to implement software solutions to reduce this.

Infonic's SharePoint, for example, has adopted a portal approach to the problem, in which only one copy of a file is actually stored, with access to that document opened up to ensure greater collaborative working and making searches more efficient.

In addition, the information model allows multiple users to change documents simultaneously. The US Marine Corps recently adopted this solution under the Tactical Collaborative Work Suite under which 76 SharePoint portals have been fielded to Afghanistan and Iraq in response to an urgent operational requirement.

Grady Tucker, business development manager at Infonic, explained that by using SharePoint the number of people involved in generating reports can be reduced by anywhere from 15 to 20 percent.

SharePoint's portal approach is also designed for tactical users, eliminating the need for a single monolithic portal that must be accessed in real time - if the wide area network link is slow then access is slow, while if the link breaks no work can be done.

SharePoint allows work to be undertaken on a deployed site on multiple SharePoint portals over faster local networks (LANs) and then replicated later over low-bandwidth links using byte-level differencing technology.

"Users in Kuwait work on their local SharePoint portal and move the data there. Users in Quantico, Virginia, work with their data locally on their LAN in their local SharePoint portal. Any changes they make in Quantico get replicated out to Kuwait ad vice versa, but the users work on their own local portal," Tucker said.

For remote users, the USMC has also acquired 5,500 laptop licenses for SharePoint that are part of its enterprise agreement to enable file share applications using a virtual, 'light' version of SharePoint on a laptop hard drive.

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Key military benefits of Infonic Geo-Replicator:

• Improved collaboration and remote access to critical information

• Faster access to SharePoint and portal content in remote areas of the world

• Release of satellite bandwidth for other purposes

• Offline access to critical Microsoft SharePoint and portal content

• Leverages existing investments in Microsoft technologies

• Enhanced CooP capabilities

Infonic’s key global military customers:

US Department of Defense

• US Navy (Distance Support)

  • NKO Afloat

  • ICAS Sensor Data

  • Sailor  to Engineer

  • Sea Warrior

• US Marine Corps (USMC) / Tactical Collaborative Work Suite

• US Army Central Command

• US Army Pacific Command

• Software also utilized on the SIPR & NIPR

UK Ministry of Defence

• Defence Information Infrastructure / Future (DIIF)

  • Royal Navy

  • Royal Air Force

  • British Army

  • Central MoD offices

• RAF Command and Control Information System (RAFCCIS)

• Armed Forces Pay and Administration Agency (AFPAA)

• Infonic Geo-Replicator is annually showcased with Fujitsu’s OpenJOP (Joint Operating Picture) application at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstrator (CWID) program

Singapore Armed Forces

• Singapore Army

For more information on how Infonic Geo-Replicator can help mobilize your organization, please e-mail GR.Sales@infonic.com.

* The US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command has issued Geo-Replicator with a Certificate of Networthiness, attesting that the technology is highly secure, supportable, and sustainable.

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