15 June 2010
Thales's Nexium offer aims to design and deploy
complex communications systems architectures that are available at any time, in
any circumstances and especially in crisis situations. The solution guarantees
network resilience, which mean they are able to resist impacts. These are
networks for high-level, end-to-end transmissions: they are efficient,
long-lasting, secure and interoperable.
The Nexium offer is further proof of Thales's
expertise as an architect of top-flight communication systems.
The shift towards automated, paperless
communications has given networks an increasingly prominent role to play in how
States, armies, businesses and citizens work and operate. Organisations' ever
growing reliance on networks has made them our societies’ core systems.
Moreover, the many interconnections necessary for exchanging information can be
new risks in the face of either intentional threats (cyber-threats, for
example) or accidental threats (such as severe storms).
Thales's Nexium offer is at once an
economical solution - using standard products to optimise costs - and a
customisable one, letting users choose the line-of-business applications best
suited to their operational requirements.
This offer is based on three main
approaches:
- Resistance to threats: the network is perfectly resilient and capable of resisting even
very high-level physical threats. Thales's expertise has provided guaranteed
device redundancy, energy self-sufficiency, effective control over physical
access and specific transmission media.
- Flow management and security: Nexium offers an intelligent network that not only delivers
powerful protection for information, but is also capable of allocating the
resources actually available to the most vital flows first.
- Network availability and
efficiency: Nexium includes an innovative network
supervision approach, capable of managing network availability and efficiency
on a continuous basis and in step with the developments of threats, while at
the same time guaranteeing network security.
"
One of Thales's strong points is its
integration platforms, which can be used to simulate the most complex environments
and test network resilience. That way, Thales can deliver the best solutions to
meet the armies' needs," explained Pascale Sourisse, Thales Senior
Vice President, C4I Defence and Security Systems. "
With Nexium, Thales
has made full use of its experience and thorough knowledge of networks in order
to work as closely as possible with armed and security forces on the ground."