The DDS has announced it will relocate DDS Communications Command (DDS-COMMCAM) to Proxima 5 which will also become the hub of the next generation DDS communications network work on which is to begin next year. Key to the move is external money. The Proxima 5 government wish to boost their economy by having extra DDS assets on the planet and are providing a 1.1 billion zark grant for the move. The UNP Development Fund is also contributing 1.5 billion. The DDS themselves will have to pay around 400 million though will be able to recoup around 75 million through sales of real estate freed up on Proxima 7. DDS-COMMCAM is the nerve centre of DDS communications, controlling and maintaining the network, keeping in touch with DDS assets and developing encryption technologies. Currently the command has 1102 personnel, many of which will be relocated.
Proxima 5 will also get the DDS Research Networking Centre (RNC) which is currently developing the next generation DDS communications backbone known as Ultranet. Proxima 5 will be the first planet to receive use of the new communications backbone which in Phase 1 will run between P5 & 7 and Solaris. Ultranet uses higher subspace frequencies and digital multiplexing to provide around 100 times more bandwidth than the current DDS Hypernet. With the new demands of technologies like FIDO and OA 2.0 the DDS is running out of bandwidth fast but Ultranet, when fully deployed at a future date, should give the DDS a long-term solution. DDS Research said that Ultranet is expandable should the need arise in future. As with Hypernet commercial and civil traffic can also run on the network in peacetime which will give a significant infrastructural boost to Proxima 5. Ultranet Phase 1 is due to start operation early in the next decade.
