The convoy enters the valley
Cellular is saturated, the tactical band is interfered with, and the satellite terminal is in a terrain shadow. Command traffic must not care which of them survives.
For procurement officers, programme managers and integrators: one encrypted connection over the dissimilar bearers the platform already carries — with no controller, no cloud and nothing new to procure for a pilot.
Communications fail exactly when the mission needs them most — that is what “contested” means.
Cellular is saturated, the tactical band is interfered with, and the satellite terminal is in a terrain shadow. Command traffic must not care which of them survives.
A drone team’s video and control channel compete on a degrading path — and without delivery contracts, the wrong one wins.
A forward position’s satellite path drops during handover to headquarters. The queue must hold, and drain the moment anything returns.
Nexus Atlas bonds the links the platform already carries — SATCOM, tactical radio, cellular, Wi-Fi, mesh, wired, others and even your custom waveform — into one encrypted connection that survives any single failure. Pure software on the compute already installed.
Every pillar maps to a demonstrable behavior, not a brochure adjective.
Under worsening interference the scheduler escalates from one to two to three simultaneous transmission paths — on a direct link set, and on every hop of a relayed route — and scales back when the spectrum clears. Diversity across links and bands does the work.
Six delivery contracts. A video stream can never crowd out the command channel, and duplicated command classes ride through a link loss without interruption.
Every node autonomous; the data plane works fully offline; configuration spreads over the encrypted tunnels themselves. A partitioned force keeps operating on both sides of the split.
Control is duplicated across links, so a base-station handoff or a fading band passes without interruption; video aggregates across whatever capacity remains.
Multi-hop mesh across the aircraft: when one is lost, the topology recomputes the moment the loss is detected — ≈1.25 s at default settings — and traffic threads through the survivors: spatial and spectral redundancy in one fabric. The swarm-fabric deep-dive
Teleoperated ground robots on bonded radio links, with redundant control paths held warm — an obstacle that blocks one radio doesn’t block the mission.
Bonded Wi-Fi and mesh radio keep logistics robots moving across large structures where any single radio has shadows.
Encrypted multi-path trunks bonding satellite, microwave and tactical radio between positions — the trunk degrades gracefully instead of failing with its weakest member.
Airborne sensor feeds cross the mesh to ground stations, aggregated across links for throughput and deadline-managed so stale frames never choke fresh ones.
No frequency-hopping claims: when one band degrades, continuous quality scoring shifts traffic classes to links on other bands — and communications continue while any usable path remains.
An eight-node mixed fleet — ground-control laptops, field relays, an airborne node — ran command and video through repeated physical path cuts and injected loss, delay and jitter across four exhibition days.
Controlled link-degradation trials — no live RF jamming, no customer-deployment claim. The honesty is deliberate; it is also what your evaluators will verify first.
Review the evidenceA defence briefing maps your bearer mix, command traffic and evaluation gates — then we cut links in front of you while the video keeps playing.