Motorola Federal Engineering performed testing on devices from IpTL Secure’s Assured Connectivity devices for the purpose of confirming capabilities within a defined use case.  The testing was performed at a lab in Motorola’s Schaumburg campus in December of 2016. The test equipment included an ASTRO 7.14 system with Motorola MCC7500 console at a local dispatch site, as well as the IpTL Model 78 and IpTL Model 71 FastLane appliances.

In this testing scenario, a dispatch operator position was configured to be at remote location without having to create an additional Dispatch Site. This was achieved by logically keeping it as the same Dispatch Site, but physically extending it to a different remote location over a layer 3 network connection, and using IpTL equipment at the two ends of the backhaul Network which creates an encrypted tunnel through the backhaul network. The backhaul network was basically a switch configured to behave like a backhaul network/cloud; where two ports are configured as two separate networks. The traffic was going between the two ports like it was going over a cloud to a different network. This test was not performed across the internet even though IpTL equipment is capable of doing that.  The following diagram represents the test setup:

Once the equipment was properly configured, some audio testing was performed. Outbound calls were made from the MCC7500 and the subscriber was able to receive the call loud and clear. Also, inbound calls were made from the subscriber and the MCC7500 console was able to receive the call loud and clear. No performance testing was done. In this test configuration the Motorola GGM (router) was not replaced by the IpTL equipment.  GGMs are still required.

Other possible applications of IpTL equipment:

• Remote clients for CEN applications like KMF: If the user is away and has access to the internet then they can access the CEN applications via the internet using IpTL equipment to create an encrypted tunnel through the internet.
• Layer 2 extensions of the CEN network: For geo-redundancy of the KMF, for instance, the Standby KMF Server can be located at a different location than the Main KMF Server. Since the KMF servers are required to be on the same network the IpTL equipment can be used for creating a layer 2 extension of the CEN network.