Underwater Digital Communicating in Turkey

Meteksan Defence’s Digital Underwater Acoustic Modem (SSAM) Prototype Development Project Acceptance Tests were successfully concluded with participants from Istanbul Maritime A.Ş., SSM and the Naval Forces Command as observers.

Whereas underwater communications was only possible with analogue voice communications until recently, with the domestically developed SSAM, data communications is now possible. Although an international standard has not been set at the present time, Meteksan Defence has developed a NATO standard modem at an early stage. In this way, the first building blocks of a product design that is compatible with NATO systems, ends dependence on overseas products and is of an exportable quality has been developed.

Meteksan Defence Deputy GM Özgür Cankaya pointed out that the SSAM developed for this project will enable secure underwater communications between underwater and above water ships and underwater sensors in later phases after it becomes a final product.

The SSAM with many advantages such as lower power consumption, short communication time, difficulty in detection, non-decipherable message even if detected, and two-way underwater recognition and identification as well as advantages in short range secure communications between sensor network systems plays an important role in secure underwater communications of critically important systems.