Five
systems will be installed on board Portuguese ships: two M-class frigates
(Bartolomeu Dias and Dom Francisco de Almeida) and 3 Vasco da Gama class
frigates. Three systems will be fitted to the Royal Netherlands Navy's
(RNlN) M frigates and the landing platform dock HNLMS Rotterdam. The
two M-class frigates of the Belgian Navy (Leopold I and Louise-Marie)
will also be upgraded.
The first vessel to receive ICCS6 will be a RNlN frigate whereas the
last one will be a Portuguese MEKO200 in 2020. It should be noted that
the Vasco da Gama frigates were originally fitted with the second generation
of ICCS in the early 90’s and that ICCS4 was installed on board
HNLMS Rotterdam a few years later.
The ICCS system is based on a distributed architecture, being composed
of a number of switches, user terminals and workstations. ICCS6 features
Internet Protocol technology and was designed specifically to provide
an efficient ships communications management tool. With a high degree
of automation, the system uses a modular and flexible concept, capable
of being tailored and configured to meet the communications requirements
of any type of warship.
EID's ICCS series can be found in platforms across a range of navies
including Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. ICCS6 is due for installation
on the UK Royal Navy's Type 26 Global Combat Ship that BAE Systems is
expected to build. Overall, ICCS series systems equip over 120 vessels
of different types: patrol boats, corvettes, frigates, destroyers, landing
ships and other support ships, aircraft carriers and submarines. |
