Army expects new network to reduce costs 65 percent

The Army plans to cut costs and meet ecological goals with a new high-speed optical transport network linking New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range and the Fort Bliss Range Complex in Texas. It has placed new orders under its three-year-old, $4 billion Infrastructure Modernization program to create the network platform, which is projected to reduce costs by 65 percent by converging multiple network layers.

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