Secure voice communications for the EU Nordic Battlegroup Sectra case study Increased security for EU battlegroups

Sweden has assumed the coordinating crypto products were successfully used to on the user being able to choose from role of a Framework Nation for the protect telephony and tactical radio multiple communications options. Nordic Battlegroup, which includes communications from eavesdropping. For Tiger users within the Nordic Battle- about 2,000 soldiers from , the next mission in 2011, the Swedish group can opt to make secure calls over , , and Ireland. Defense Forces have also turned to Sectra satellite or over national landline and for secure voice communications. GSM networks. Telecommunications is As of January 1, 2011, the Nordic secured at stationary and mobile Battlegroup will be on standby for Tigers protect IP-based communications command centers and at mobile users deployment on crisis management over satellite links and the military command. missions within a radius of 6,000 With regard to the Nordic Battlegroup, kilometers from Brussels. Sectra has developed a communications Secure tactical radio Nordic Battlegroup equipped with solution in which the Tiger XS personal The Nordic Battlegroup uses Sectra’s Sectra’s crypto products voice encryptor can be used for IP-based tactical encryptor to secure radio During Nordic Battlegroup’s first communications over satellite links. communications. The crypto can be peacekeeping mission in 2008, Sectra’s Tiger XS is a flexible concept that builds mounted in vehicles and carried by

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Secure tactical radio Force HQ Sectra’s crypto for secure tactical radio is designed to meet demands of durability, simplicity and security. The crypto protects communications over the Ra 180 and Ra 1512 radio networks as well as over IP-based tactical carrier networks.

troops, for instance on reconnaissance Secure EU and NATO communications missions. Radio communication between EU and NATO have also certified command centers, vehicles and troops is Tiger XS for encrypted telephony at the encrypted and increases security for the high security level, SECRET. This battlegroup in conflict areas. unique, dual-security approval means that government authorities and defense Cost-effective deployment organizations that are members of the EU Sectra’s flexible crypto products are used and NATO can use Tiger XS to protect all across the existing communications sensitive and security-classified telephone infrastructure. This allows for a rapid and calls. Tiger XS is available for purchase by cost-effective deployment of the system. European countries with either EU or NATO membership, including the NATO Security-approved crypto products organization. Today, Sectra Tiger is in use Tiger XS used in the Nordic Battlegroup is by customers in more than half of all EU approved by the security authority in member states. Sweden for communications up to and including the high security level SECRET.

Desktop installation of Tiger XS protects telephone calls for stationary and mobile command centers.

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