The Mercury IP Audio Communications platform is designed to meet the requirements of network-centric operations, including the need to:
- Leverage an ubiquitous, standards-based network environment
- Provide highly available, rapid, secure and reliable voice communications between security levels and sites
- Give users the ability to readily adapt, collaborate and deliver capability
- Allow communications to flow across US Department of Defense, Intelligence Community (IC) and Coalition Boundaries while safeguarding communications
- Simplify communications for the user
At it's core, Mercury provides:
- Multi-channel Intercom over IP (IoIP)
- Multi-channel Radio over IP (RoIP)
- Interoperability with VoIP and other Telephony Systems
- Communications between Top Secret and Secret Classification Levels (PL-4)
- Communications between domains (Multi-Domain)
- One Powerful User Interface
Mercury is now a part of several major defense programs, including one that involves global multi-level and multi-domain voice communications as a part of a multi-billion dollar weapons system operated by thousands of personnel worldwide. Other common uses include:
- Command and control including intercom and radio over IP (RoIP)
- Training and simulation
- IP-enabling legacy voice communications platforms / communication nets