20 years of CATAPAN: The remarkable rise of a game-changing encryption device

Over the years, this device has developed and evolved into an entire range of products that protect and ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of data, assets and infrastructure. With versions currently in service across multiple countries, and our UK-version also widely deployed, this year, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of CATAPAN.

The success of CATAPAN within the market has seen us become the acknowledged go-to for the provision of high-grade cyber capabilities; experts ideally positioned to satisfy the existing and future requirements of our customers. This is the story of that success.

CATAPAN: The origins The UK's first high-grade in-field re-configurable encryption device, CATAPAN works as an Internet Protocol (IP), Layer 3 device, the protocol that most communications systems employ today. It is called upon to protect highly sensitive and mission-critical data without compromising effective and efficient communications over networks. Its inception began in the early 90s, when TRL Technology was commissioned to develop the UK's first network encryption device, as opposed to the prevalent point-to-point device. At the time, we were a fresh, small, and novel company with big ideas and a new perspective on a legacy capability, which stood us in good stead with customers and made them excited about working with us. The contract won, we produced an at-the-time massive bandwidth, modern CryptKey device that would be based upon the application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) chip. The only problem was, the original manufacturer of the ASIC chip then decided to disband its business, leaving us with a very important gap to fill.

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