BIGSTAF
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Manufacturers are Thales Land & Joint Systems (formerly Alcatel SEL) and EADS (formerly DASA / Deutsche Aerospace).
The broadband, integrated command post telecommunication network serves as a Local Area Network (LAN) for complete communication for all services at the command posts of the Army of the German Armed Forces with external connection via radio link and currently has a transmission rate of 10 Mbit / second (Mbps).
It is a wireless or fiber optic telecommunications network for the simultaneous transmission of voice and high-speed data both in the LAN according to IEEE 802.3 Ethernet with up to 300 participants and with transitions to a room-wide telecommunications network. The system consists of the network components fiber optics and radio relay via the radio relay set small FM 15000. A 60 GHz radio network for internal communication at command posts and a 51 GHz radio network for connections between command posts were planned, but not used for financial reasons. A network transition to other tactical / military telecommunications networks or to commercial telecommunication networks is via the wide area network AUTOKO 90 .
BIGSTAF has been deployed in the command post companies (2 telecommunication platoons, 2 BIGSTAF platoons, 2 command post platoons) of the Bundeswehr's telecommunications battalions since 1998 for brigade and divisional headquarters in order to improve the commanding ability of the army in international crisis operations (e.g. deployed in Kosovo at KFOR ). In 2002, the German Bundestag approved the procurement of additional BIGSTAF systems with a total volume of 57 million euros.
The scope included the purchase of MB 1017 trucks (truck 5 to 4x4 tmil) with antenna carrier BIGSTAF (25 m long) as well as other vehicles and the like. a. BIGSTAF network connection transporter, node switching transporter, truck with 60 kVA unit .
A PC training system is available at the Bundeswehr Information Technology School in Feldafing (Bavaria).
In 2013 the company steep GmbH in Bonn, in cooperation with the IT company blackned GmbH in Erlenmoos, was awarded a public tender by the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) to replace the wired BIGSTAF components of the command post (GefStdTrp) Command information system of the army (FüInfoSysH) through the new communication platform MUP (Mobile Unified Platform). The previously used BIGSTAF components of the FüInfoSysH are to be replaced by the implementation of IP telephony (VoIP). The primary goal should be the simultaneous use of the existing local network infrastructure of the command information system of the Army and thus the elimination of the construction and operation of a separate Local Area Network (LAN).
There are also plans to modernize the command post telecommunications network by replacing components such as IPv6- capable routers.
Web links
- Panzerbär pictures and information about BIGSTAF
- German army
- Intranet-based tactical communication ( Memento from January 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ); (514 kB)