Technology Evaluation Project: Technical Evaluation of the Tactical Communications Bridge-2   [open pdf - 400KB]

"This report describes the test procedures and results of the product evaluation for the Tactical Communications Bridge-2 (TCB-2). The TCB-2 is an audio gateway device manufactured by Ink Communications, Inc. An audio gateway device (also called an audio matrix or a cross-band switch) links disparate radio systems to support communications interoperability between dissimilar wireless systems. Such a device simply passes baseband (audio) signals from the receiver portion of one radio to the transmitter portion of a dissimilar radio system."