The project is expected to last for three years, and will be rolled out in three unique stages.

Softanet is a broad European partnership between both nations and companies, including Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Rohde & Schwarz, Radmor and Airbus, while the project will be co-ordinated by Thales.

The project will observe whether using virtualisation technology will improve the European Defence Agency’s communication network.

The project’s three stages are expected be laid out in the following way:

Stage 1: To last six months in which participants determine the virtualised network structure.

Stage 2: To last 18 months in which participants undertake a series of studies of the network.

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Stage 3: Expected to last a year, will trial the network under the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise.

[Related: Airbus, Fujitsu, Thales sign MoU for UK Defence program]

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Liam began his career as a speech writer at New South Wales Parliament before working for world leading campaigns and research agencies in Sydney and Auckland. Throughout his career, Liam has managed and executed international media and communications campaigns spanning politics, business, industrial relations and infrastructure. He’s since shifted his attention to researching and writing extensively on geopolitics and defence. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney and a Masters in Strategy and Security with Excellence from UNSW Canberra, with a thesis on post-truth, postmodernism and disinformation operations.

 

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