SELEX Communications Intelligent Information Dissemination (I2D) significantly enhances bandwidth availability

9 November, 2010 -  Trials of the SELEX Communications (a Finmeccanica company) Intelligent Information Dissemination (I2D) product undertaken with Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) have demonstrated a saving of around 90% of satellite bandwidth when I2D is used to intelligently manage information flow around a communications network to maximise efficiency. The trials took place at SELEX Communications’ plant in Genoa, Italy, and witnessed the highly successful time-critical passage of hydrographical data.

I2D was designed to solve the widely experienced issues of limited bandwidth, inefficient bandwidth usage, multiple information requests being made by the same location, and stove-piped systems or communication paths. The product has been deployed in the UK to support a variety of information types and has already provided significant savings on bandwidth usage.

I2D is now available to communications network operators to maximise information to be transported around a network or to substantially reduce their bandwidth expenditure and it can now deliver information in even greater volumes than the available bandwidth would normally support by using innovative techniques.

I2D also increases the utility of low bandwidth systems, such as HF and soldier radios, supporting data distribution to disadvantaged users. I2D’s innovative techniques deliver excellent results, enabling the distribution of significant ISTAR products, such as high definition images. This capability has been successfully demonstrated on a number of in-service communications systems.

The system profiles users and information to ensure users find the product they require and do not have to request it to be resent. I2D can link legacy or proprietary systems together as an information gateway.