More expansive LVC training requirements mandate an increasingly expansive and broadly connected network - connecting many users/devices to data and applications.  Users/devices interact with data and applications via a network that spans from edge to cloud. The underlying architecture must enable integration of many types of live and virtual connected systems, connection of users/systems from multiple locations, and means to connect users/devices of differing characteristics (e.g. mobile, fixed, low-latency demand, constrained bandwidth). The employment of a private wireless architecture in the demanding LVC environment manages complexity while optimizing performance and security. A private wireless architecture delivers the desired connectivity and performance that enables the entire ecosystem (edge-network-datacenter-cloud) to operate as an integrated, secure LVC training platform.  This approach also allows for a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).  

A private wireless architecture brings together wired and multiple wireless access technologies such as LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, LoRaWAN, Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (uRLLC), and massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC). The role of the network architecture is to provide secure connectivity between all nodes - most especially ensuring seamless wireless connectivity for mobile nodes. ZTA is an increasingly critical approach to any network architecture employment and can be applied to an LVC wireless environment.  ZTA spans across all components of the LVC Network including training participants and support, user/device connections and connection of data and applications no matter how they connect to the network and associated resource.

Greater adoption of wireless technology by the Department of Defense creates a revolutionary shift for IT operations that the LVC training environment should embrace. These technologies enable operators to exchange data at greater speeds, over increased bandwidths, with secure connectivity, and in support of ubiquitous access methods. LVC training must enable new transformative mission threads and potentially allow for the experimentation of the consumption of the features offered by these mediums while remaining aligned with training objectives.  These developments necessitate that the underlying network provides the LVC the ability to host applications using wireless technologies. 

A ZTA enables users, devices, and applications to exchange data while integrating into data centers and edge distribution nodes; all based on least-privileged access principles.  Integration of massively scalable, low latency-enabled applications opens new mission capabilities and creates new demands on the LVC environment. A comprehensive private wireless architecture able to leverage diverse mobile/fixed connectivity requirements at the edge, with ZT security incorporated, provides the full potential of the LVC environment, ensuring mission success.