CoCo Technology

The development of CoCo™ technology was motivated by the communication interoperability and availability problems encountered on 9/11. It was through this effort that the company made a discovery that resulted in a communications technology breakthrough. CoCo is currently focused on the government homeland communications market—addressing its critical needs around interoperability, sustainability, and security with a new class of solutions based on a Cryptographic Overlay Mesh Protocol (COMP).

The COMP's architecture design breaks away from the traditional OSI seven-layer model and addresses the interdependency of three longstanding problems at the protocol level: security, mobility and quality of service (QoS). These limitations traditionally have been addressed at the operating system or application level—for example, VPN, firewall, and IDS software improve the security limitations of the Internet Protocol. However, even with all three types of patches applied, the network layer is still vulnerable to attack.

Due to the “interdependency” of security, interoperability, and QoS, it is not possible to protect the network layer at the operating system or application level. The COMP addresses this interdependency problem by protecting both the data and the network from attack, in addition to scaling globally. These capabilities will usher in a new era of secure, adaptive communications.

Toward that end, CoCo developed a suite of public safety products and solutions that utilize the power of the COMP.