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Growing Demand For Bandwidth Requires Effective Management of Resources, Official Says

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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

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By Geoff Fein With commercial demand for bandwidth and spectrum growing exponentially, the military is tasked with finding ways to effectively manage those resources while at the same time investigating new technologies. And the Department of Defense's (DoD) move into network centric operations is putting even further stress on competition for those finite resources, according to Paige Atkins, director, Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO). DSO is a unit of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). "As we look at our growing…

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