ADS & Amphenol
Fiber optic communication repair
Enabling Network-Centric Military Operations
The partnership of ADS and Amphenol ensures the most efficient and accurate fiber optic kitting and delivery in the industry. Through this partnership, ADS offers specialty kits that provide fiber optic communication repair options that are reliable, tested, and deployable within the most rugged wartime environments. When designing specialty kits, Amphenol and ADS select the highest quality materials and most efficient kitting options at the best value to the customer.
Over the course of military history, battlefield tactics evolved alongside technological advancement. The rise of the industrial age ended the days when the sheer number of men determined the outcome of battle. Essentially, human-centric warfare ended and a new age of platform-centric warfare began. For a century, platform-centric warfare evolved at a rapid pace. On land, the introduction of tanks made trench warfare obsolete. On the oceans, battleship supremacy gave way to the rise of the aircraft carrier and its ability to project air power globally. Long-range bombers along with land and submarine-based ballistic missile systems defined the Cold War. And with the invasion of Iraq, cruise missiles and smart bombs obliterated Iraqi military infrastructure before coalition units even crossed the border en masse.
Evolving Warfare
Today, warfare is evolving again. Platform-centric warfare is now transforming into network-centric warfare. This new type of Information Age combat dictates seamless interconnectivity between highly-trained combat units, advanced weapons systems and a superior command and control infrastructure. Network-centric warfare is a concert of operational execution, employing a high-performance information grid, access to all appropriate data sources, high-speed automated assignment of resources as needed, and integrated sensor grids closely synchronized with other processes. As a result, network-centric warfare demands a robust fiber optic network infrastructure that not only provides interconnectivity, but does so in some of the most remote and inhospitable combat environments imaginable.
Amphenol Fiber Optic Repair Kit
Fiber Optic Benefits
- High Degree of Design Flexibility
- Absence of ground currents and other parasitic signal and power issues
- High data-carrying capacity
- No crosstalk between fiber cables
- Immunity to electromagnetic interference
- High electrical resistance
- No sparks
- Lightweight, smaller cable size
- Difficult to tap
Supporting Combat in the Information Age
Fiber optic technology allows vital communication to take place in mission-critical operations, especially within forward-deployed locations. To ensure military units around the world have the technology needed to engage in modern, network-centric operations, ADS partners with Amphenol Fiber Systems International (AFSI), one of the largest manufacturers of interconnectivity products including electrical, electronic, and fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable, and interconnect systems. Together ADS and Amphenol help to connect the modern battlefield.
Today, network-centric operations are becoming more commonplace and, due to high bandwidth requirements, they rely heavily on fiber optics. Fiber optic connectivity enables communication over extremely long distances without detection. At the same time, it provides advanced sensor-to-shooter capabilities, increased situational awareness, video revolution, remote radio control, and even the convergence of these abilities when necessary.
Specializing in the fabrication, manufacture, and delivery of connectivity products and systems, Amphenol’s commitment to technical excellence and partnership with ADS makes them an industry leader in providing sophisticated products and professional technical assistance to military customers. Combined with the streamlined ADS procurement process, this partnership delivers rugged military solutions for communications systems based on fiber optic interconnect technology.
Amphenol Military Fiber Optics
- Low loss supports long distances between amplifiers /repeaters
- Shipboard communication and navigation systems
- Ship-to-short communication systems
- Communication, command and control ground shelter systems
- Deployable radar systems
- Deployable airfield communication systems
- Deployable tactical systems
Amphenol products yield the best possible optical performance in applications with severe environmental conditions including vibration, saltwater, mud, sand, and temperature extremes. With Amphenol products, ADS streamlines the fiber optic communication procurement process, providing a one-stop-shop for military customers. ADS not only reduces turn-around time, but also decreases customer logistical footprints and costs.
