What's Brewin: There's Simple, Then There's Complex
By Bob Brewin
In 2006, Celine Johnson, chief of the Local Network Operations and Security Center of the 507th Signal Company, which is part of the 59th Signal Battalion at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, wanted to find a way to electronically bridge the gap between families on the base and their husbands, wives, mothers and fathers in the 172nd Stryker Brigade deployed to Iraq.
Sure, the soldiers had phones and e-mail, but Johnson wanted to add a video system that would help families see, as well as talk, to each other. She knew she needed a secure system that would conserve bandwidth. While attending the Army LandWarNet conference in September 2006, Johnson discovered VIDITalk, a streaming video system. She obtained a license and had the system up and running just in time to deal with a crisis: a three-month tour of duty extension for the 172nd in late 2006.
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