
Harrier: Web-based Email Client for Military Messaging
Harrier, Isode's Email Messaging client, provides a modern user-interface to secure messaging on Web. Harrier can be used in both General Purpose and Military deployments.
Isode has been delivering server software product central to military messaging and directory deployments worldwide for more than 20 years.
Since 2002, Isode has been developing and supporting commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software for secure messaging. Our software is at the heart of great solutions, built in conjunction with our partners, for Military, Intelligence and Civil Aviation customers in over 150 countries.
Isode’s products include client, server and gateway software for Email Messaging, XMPP Instant Messaging, Directory and Constrained Networks.
Designed to work over both standard internet-quality links and over Constrained Network links (high-latency and/or low-bandwidth) such as SatCom, HF, VHF and UHF, Isode products are in service with Armies, Navies and Air Forces worldwide.
Isode provides email server, gateway and client products for military messaging using STANAG 4406, ACP127 and SMTP protocols, including gateways between these protocols following ACP145 and MIXER. Isode products are ideal for deployment in both standard and constrained bandwidth environments.
The company also provides clients, gateways and servers for deployment as part of a military email solution:
All Isode Email Server products can be deployed as a local MTA providing one or more of Isode’s supported protocols or as a gateway between any of the listed protocols, as well as SMTP and X.400.
Products are additionally optimised for operation in Constrained Network Environments including support for S4406 Annex E and ACP127 BRASS (Broadcast and Ship to Shore) deployments. Isode’s M-Switch SMTP and M-Switch MIXER also support CFTP (sometimes known as Battle Force Email/BFEM) for simple support of informal SMTP messaging for HF.
Isode supplies XMPP server, gateway and client products ideally suited to military deployments over both internet quality networks and constrained networks (low- bandwidth and/or high-latency links such as SatCom and HF Radio).
Isode provides clients, gateways and servers for deployment as part of a military XMPP solution:
Instant messaging is becoming an increasingly important communication option for militaries, particularly for sharing communication with a large number of users with multi-user chat capabilities.
Voice and video communications are often impractical due to networking constraints and/or operational characteristics. Email or formal messaging is often too slow and cumbersome where information sharing and associated decision-making need to appen very quickly.
Directory services are a critical military component, used for tactical and strategic systems. Military directories, standardised in ACP 133, are used to provide information services, support of military messaging, and as supporting infrastructure for other applications such as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
Isode provides all of the servers and management tools needed to build a military directory.
Directory Server: The M-Vault directory server is the core component of Isode’s offering for military directory, providing:
Directory synchronisation with partner organizations using Sodium Sync.
All of Isode’s products are optimised for use over constrained networks (low bandwidth and/or high-latency) such as SatCom and HF Radio. In addition, Isode produces a modem-independent STANAG 5066 server enabling applications to work simultaneously and efficiently over HF modems/radios.
Harrier, Isode's Email Messaging client, provides a modern user-interface to secure messaging on Web. Harrier can be used in both General Purpose and Military deployments.
The M-Link IRC Gateway enables connections between IRC and XMPP servers. The Gateway operates by associating IRC Channels with XMPP Multi-User Chat (MUC) rooms hosted on the Gateway. The MUC rooms can be assessed by XMPP users on connected XMPP servers and by IRC users on connected IRC servers.
XMPP works efficiently over medium and high speed networks. Many military deployments will use network links with poor and variable quality, such as SatCom and HF Radio, with high latency being a particular problem.
The M-Link Edge is used to provide an XMPP Boundary Guard service to protect organizational boundaries and provide Cross Domain services.
Swift Desktop is a multi-platform XMPP client for instant messaging and multi-user chat. A free and open source client (with support packages available from Isode), it contains a number of features that make it ideal for use in secure environments such as Military, Finance and Government.
This whitepaper gives a summary of Isode’s approach to providing products for HF radio, looking at current and future products, explaining the problems being addressed. The paper starts by looking at why HF Radio is an important technology for BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) communication, despite its technical difficulties.
This whitepaper describes an approach to protect data using IP Crypto over HF communication.
This white paper looks at dierent messaging protocols for use over HF Radio. HF Radio has awkward operational characteristics.
This whitepaper looks at how tracking end to end message acknowledgements can improve service reliability for mission critical messaging.
Broadcast and Ship to Shore (BRASS) is an approach used by navies, particularly in Nato countries, to communicate between ships and shore using high frequency (HF) radio.
This whitepaper describes the new archive capability in M-Link, and how it enables searching of archive data by end users and operators.
Forms are important for military operations, and there is often a need to handle forms quickly and share with a large number of users.
Isode is excited to announce the release of Harrier 3.1 and Cobalt 1.1. These releases are an important step for our Draft, Review & Release Solution, a capability of particular interest within Military Deployments.
6 May 2021ISODE has confirmed it will be participating at the West 2020 event taking place in San Diego, California, US on 2-3 March.
24 January 2020Arctic Tiger 2012, a major military excercise involving aircraft from several nations, took place out of Ørland airbase, Norway between 29 May - 7 June.
10 July 2012Isode is pleased to announce that its 'M-Link' instant messaging and multi-user chat server software (based on the XMPP protocol) and 'Swift' desktop client software have been approved for inclusion on the US Department of Defense (DoD) unified communications approved product list (APL).
26 April 2012ACP 145 was specified to enable communication between CCEB Nations (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, US) by defining a common interface standard for military messaging between nations.
14 November 2011Isode is pleased to announe that CEO Steve Kille will be speaking at the next meeting of the High Frequency Industry Association (HFIA) meeting in San Diego on 27 January 2011. His talk on 'XMPP over HF using STANAG 5066' covers an area that Isode has invested a lot of time in over the
20 January 2011The Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) is an annual demonstration that showcases information-sharing technologies that can be used by militaries and other government agencies to fill existing operational capability gaps. Initiated by the US, CWID includes participan
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8 August 2010Isode have released a new white paper which looks at how M-Link, Isode's XMPP server is optimized for operation over constrained networks, including satcom, HF radio, and other radio links. The paper starts by looking at the benefits of using XMPP over constrained networks, and the key problems f
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High frequency (HF) radio remains the only viable alternative to SATCOM for beyond line-of-sight BLOS communication and this article looks at why it remains a crucial and strategic military capability.
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