The platform was built to address the demand for mobile email communications across a range of environments, including remote and isolated locations connected only by HF radio.

According to Barrett, end users can access emails from smartphones, tablets or laptops with established email platforms, such as Outlook, Gmail and Apple Mail. Other platforms, however, require users to run PC-based applications to send and receive Post Office Protocol (POP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email via HF radio.

To operate Barrett’s new 4020 HF Radio Mailbox, users link their smart device to the platform’s inbuilt Wi-Fi hotspot, synchronising their mail account. Mail received by the platform is then automatically synchronised with the user’s device, with outgoing mail sent via the HF radio using automatic link establishment to the radio gateway and on to the private/public domain mail server.

The firm also referenced the platform’s small size, which it stated makes it adaptable to a wide range of base station, mobile and ‘manpack’ applications.

Barrett Communications is a member of C4 EDGE (Evolutionary Digital Ground Environment) — a defence industry co-operative of C4 (command, control, communications and computers) subject matter experts leading a communications program scoping the demonstration of a sovereign land battlegroup and below communications environment for the Australian Army.

The C4 EDGE program will leverage internationally agreed open standards to grow and demonstrate Australian C4 industry capacity and ability to deliver a battlegroup and below C4 capability demonstration.

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