Quick, Easy, and Powerful Model Generation Tools A complete Model Composer toolset lets you build complex, sophisticated, and high-fidelity communications and sound models with a wide variety of powerful applications. Start at the highest level, and avoid the CAD approach of tweaking every widget and connection. Let the Composer toolset do the heavy lifting, or even generate your complete model.

Need an F-16 communications model? Select the Comms Platform Composer and grab an F-16 template from the pull-down list. Need to substitute a different radio for your version? Click on what you need, and drop it in. Pull in a missing weapon tone, add a new VOR receiver, press the button and a high fidelity F-16 comms simulation is dropped on the desktop. Or create the platform simulation of your choice. Start with a generic platform template, select your high-level components such as an ARC-164 with HQII Radio, ARN-118 TACAN Receiver, and appropriate warning sounds from the ASTi-provided libraries, and you've quickly put together a complete communications simulation.

Need to add some background to the communications environment? Select the Environment Composer and create a communications model with all the ATIS, GCA, Nav Transmitter, Radio Chatter and Jamming elements you need.

What about the IOS? An area that is often more complicated than the platform simulation itself can be quickly constructed with the IOS Composer. Select operators, insert radios for role playing, add monitor features, insert some observer stations, and out pops your IOS communications model.

Hey, what about Environmental Cues? Select the Sound Composer and generate that UH-60 environmental cue model. Pick your rotors, your engines, your weapons and other sounds from the libraries, and get yourself to the 90% point quickly and easily.

Now complete the process by bundling various models into a scenario bundle using the Scenario Composer. Select your F-18 comms and sound models, your IOS and role player station models, and the appropriate scenario conditions such as HLA, Terrain Occulting, Propagation, and create an executable scenario that can be run, monitored, or even modified from the desktop or your host.

Extensive Communications Equipment and Sound Libraries What makes the Composer Tools powerful? An extensive pre-built library of radios, nav aids, sounds, tones, and even platforms. Why build from scratch when you can leverage ASTi's extensive knowledge? Capitalize on existing radio, sound, and even platform models to get you to the solution quickly.

Visual Environment Concerned that the Composer Toolset can't get you through DR sign-off with the customer? No worries. You can still tweak that last 10% with the Model Builder Visual environment. Drag-and-drop, point-and-click, manipulate complete platform models or get right down into parameter connections, signal paths, math functions, tables, and logic. The environment gives you the ability to see, probe and debug your model down to the details, should you need to.

Network, Network, Network You know who you are! For many sims, you can't just build your model and capabilities for the local platform. You have to interoperate. ASTi has been recognized as the network radio simulation leader in the industry; bring our considerable expertise and knowledge to your application.

Telestra's development and runtime environment offers the tools and features you need in a network environment including: DIS and HLA support, complete visibility of all equipment and models on the network, communications debug tools, remote monitoring/configuration/testing capabilities, and network voice management features to cut down on bandwidth consumption.

Want to load a new model on your Telestra platform in another building? Select the asset from the desktop, drop in the model from the library, and you're off and running.

Let's say that you're at Kirtland AFB, and exercise start is approaching. Are all the Telestras on the F-16 trainers at Shaw AFB configured properly? Just find the assets on the desktop, click, and get all the configuration and statistics information you need - in real time!

Why can't we talk!? Is it the simulation? The network? The headset? Get the answers with a complete set of tools for both local and network exercise debugging.

Communications Planning and Scenario Management Speaking of network exercises, wouldn't it be great to build up the communications plan and initialize all those radio assets, and crypto keys, and hopsets, and... ? Now you can. Tools and features allowing you to set up and manage the complete radio and communications environment are already built in. Initialize radios, program presets and crypto keys, and dynamically change the communications environment from the desktop or your host.

High Fidelity Communications Simulation The simulation components and elements you expect from ASTi including sophisticated, high-fidelity bandwidth modeling and propagation effects, jamming, secure, Tactical Data Links, HF/ALE, SATCOM, Terrain, Nav, RWR, Caution/Warning, and more are all right there for the taking.

High Fidelity Sound Complex sound simulation objects such as props, rotors and engines, 8-48kHz support, sound synthesis and playback capabilities, 3D, and doppler effects are all supported.

Model Management and Documentation Built-in configuration management tools keep you honest, guarantee your reuse, and help document your creations and revisions. Manage objects, models, and even entire exercise scenarios.

Distributed Digital Audio and I/O A new suite of compact USB audio and I/O devices provide distributed digital audio and flexible I/O supporting a wide variety of headsets, audio gear, simulated communications panels and even real panel interfaces.