User's Manual

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INTRODUCTION
Pathmaker is a voice-oriented, handheld radio communications device providing groups
of users with unlimited mobility and coverage without the need for a fixed infrastructure.
By creating an ad hoc, self-routing mobile network, Pathmaker ensures high quality
voice, data, and video communications together with simultaneous connectivity to
external networks.
Pathmaker offers a simultaneous voice and data wireless mesh network at the end unit
level (radio device, cell phone/PDA, etc.). General Dynamic’s technology enables each
Pathmaker device to function as if it were a voice and data router/repeater. As such,
Pathmaker creates a powerful multi-hop/multi-user dynamic network that extends
coverage to the tactical edge and overcomes the daily issues of infrastructure
dependency, blocked transmissions (walls, metal, dead-spots, climate, etc.) and out-of-
range communication.
Figure 1 - Pathmaker Radio