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Cisco is incredibly proud of its partnership with Telindus and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (ACA) to design and deliver a world class Technology Architecture for the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales carriers. The three primary challenges we addressed: • How to balance the long shipbuilding programme time scales vs short-term technology life cycles • Minimising the amount of IT equipment required to support the operational demands of the ship • Minimising the Risk of deploying “Everything over IP” including 1800 IP Phones Naval ships traditionally have 40+ separate communications networks throughout the ship, supporting everything from command and control to entertainment systems. Cisco took an innovative approach to the challenge of minimising the amount of IT by recommending a converged, virtualised IP network design which enabled a massive reduction in the amount of equipment required to support the ship’s operations. Cisco Services assured and continually evolved the high availability network design throughout
the ship’s development life cycle to reduce risk, avoid technology obsolescence and exploit new innovation. MOD benefits: • A state of the art, secure and future proof, resilient communications infrastructure • A reduced number of physical networks delivering better value for money • Through Life Capability Management (TLCM) enhancement - a scalable and modular approach • A best in class communications infrastructure, providing connectivity, unified communications, security and network management capability We are confident this will be considered the best practice technology design approach in the maritime environment.
For more information on Cisco’s C4ISR capabilities please email defence-cisco@cisco.com We wish them fair winds and following seas