Defense & Aerospace Enhanced situational awareness

Collaboration over IP

Because operators and decision-makers need immediate access to visual information from a wide variety of sources, networked systems are on the rise. We offer a network client application, built on our best-of-class components, for access to real-time information - be it video, radar graphics or other - distributed over a secure network, with minimal latency and in the highest quality.

Collaboration benefits

Uncompromised visualization

Operational efficiency

The benefits of networked collaboration are compelling in many fields, especially in Defense & Aerospace where efficiency in both operations and economy can be realized.

To deliver that value, Barco’s collaboration over IP solution provides hardware and software to ensure all visuals and data can be viewed and/or recorded by any user in real-time.

Collaboration over IP enables:

Whether distributing live video, graphics, audio and data streams within a ship or vehicle for enhanced situational awareness, or synchronously recording them for mission review, the ability to share and record content in high fidelity offers almost immeasurable value.

Our offerings enable these sources to be delivered in native resolution (2560x1600 and beyond), with full color representation, utilizing our best-in-class visually lossless compression technology.

• Composited views of network sources

• Ad-hoc streaming of real-time mission video and data to local crews or remote sites

• Synchronous recording for detailed mission review

The network architecture of traditional defense platforms requires various enhancements to satisfy the needs of the 21st century military. More scalable and flexible configurations, less cluttered workstations, and robust support for redundancy and failover recovery, are just a few of the fundamentals needed to ensure operational success. Recent trends are to move from legacy point-to-point networks towards a converged, net-centric IP model potentially enabling cost savings of up to 40%. Barco’s collaboration over IP leverages this net-centric approach in its products and helps realize the promise of delivering dramatic cost savings across Defense & Aerospace environments.

Feature rich solution Synchronized recording

Visually lossless transmission

Secured environment

Critical visuals from video walls and navigation/management consoles can be synchronously recorded and played back in a single skin, without compromising visual quality or accuracy. Bookmarks can also be added to recordings for review of key mission events.

Barco’s network collaboration solution maintains image quality, regardless of network speed. As a result, crew members and mission support specialists can make real-time decisions based on the same visually lossless information they would have available to them from the original source.

Policy-based access control provides a powerful and flexible means of protecting sources. Administrators can define and set security policies based on user and resource attributes.

Interactive collaboration

Future safe

Custom user interfaces

Crew members and support specialists can take keyboard and mouse control of applications on any computer on the network with an average 50 milliseconds of end-to-end latency. In situations where network constraints elicit additional latency, local feedback technology ensures minimal perceived changes to remote participants’ experience.

With new display technology constantly pushing the envelope in terms of the number of pixels packed into a single screen, Barco’s network collaboration devices supports SVGA (800 x 600) to QUXGA (3200 x 2400) video transmission and recording – with all recordings available in various standards-based video formats.

Barco’s network collaboration API grants the ability to fully customize the end-user experience. Thus, video distribution control can be transparently embedded into the crew’s workflow.

This ensures defense & aerospace deployments remain a step ahead of technological obsolescence.

Additionally, recurring reports can be scheduled to audit system activity and state.

Key tools for visual collaboration

Encoders and decoders

Recording and distribution

Central management

Video-to-Data (V2D) encoders/decoders enable seamless, point-to-point video, graphics and audio distribution, plus keyboard/mouse control — all with low latency. Additionally, the V2D ensures the highest quality collaborative experience in any network and for any bandwidth allocation.

The Digital Media Server (DMS) is a versatile platform performing key archival and stream distribution tasks. It enables multi-stream, synchronous network recording and playback of simultaneous SVGA (800 x 600) to QUXGA (3200 x 2400) video and graphics streams including audio and metadata.

IT managers, administrators and system integrators can easily manage individual or group elements by type, location or user-defined criteria using the most powerful and intuitive management platform engine in the industry.

The DMS is also a stream distribution and relay node on the network. It converts unicast streams to a multicast stream (and vice versa) and adjusts the bandwidth of outgoing streams to accommodate network constraints.

From small scale deployments to multi-site, multi-device, global installations, the Management Server (MS) provides tools and setup wizards to ensure quick and efficient configuration with a standard or customizable UI.

Barco’s collaboration over IP Barco focuses exclusively on providing reliable and secure experiences to its customers. With the hardware and software we manufacture and design, the armed forces can share the highest resolution video and graphics sources available using their existing data networks. And since data review and analysis can be as important as real-time collaboration, we also offer scalable solutions to record, synchronize, playback and bookmark all streams no matter where they are generated or reproduced. Among our unique offerings are: • Specially architected encoders and decoders for streaming the highest resolution video and graphics data with minimal latency • Recording technology capable of synchronously archiving unlimited high-resolution networked streams • Powerful collaboration software including multi-stream players, secure access control and open, programmable user interfaces • Advanced capabilities including active 3D stereo streaming and tools to provide attractive stream layout and picture-in-picture options

About Barco Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets: medical imaging, media & entertainment, infrastructure & utilities, traffic & transportation, defense & security, education & training and corporate AV. In these markets, Barco offers user-friendly imaging products that optimize productivity and business efficiency. Our innovative hard-and software solutions integrate all aspects of the imaging chain, from image acquisition and processing to image display and management.

Barco for defense and aerospace At moments of decision, Barco is there to enhance mission effectiveness and bring critical sensor information to the operator. As no other visualization company, Barco gives operators and decision-makers the power to see their high-resolution images in real time, wherever they need them. Barco has been serving the defense and aerospace community for over 30 years, providing reliable and high-performance software solutions, high-quality rugged displays, deployable workstations, advanced imaging platforms and Common-Operational-Picture solutions.

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