The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has given its approval to the much-needed requirement of a secure communication network for our troops deployed in forwarding areas like the Line of Actual Control LAC).
Secure communication could mean the difference between life and death. At the LAC, China already has the leg-up on secure communication network as it has installed modern optical fibre cable links.
Which is why the CCS has agreed to a Rs 7,796 crore project to establish a secure communication network of modern optical fibre cable links in along with the use of satellites and microwave radios, reported in Economic Times.
The new advanced communication system is called “Army Static Switched Communication Network” or ASCON. The project will be implemented by the public sector undertaking ITI.
ASCON will revolutionise military communication systems, and our army will shift to internet protocol (IP) / multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology with high bandwidth communication to the remote operational areas.