Actelis Networks (OTCQB: ASNS) has won a U.S. Marine Corps order to modernize voice networking across 65 buildings without replacing the base’s existing wiring. The project gives the service a faster path to cyber-hardened Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service than a full fiber-construction effort, according to the company.
For military installations, communications upgrades can become construction projects before network equipment is even installed. Running new fiber between buildings can require design work, permits, trenching and long outages. Actelis said its approach will use the base’s existing wires, allowing the deployment to proceed in days rather than the months or years it said a ground-up network could require.
The order covers Actelis networking hardware and software, plus installation, training and continuing support from defense integrators HammerTech and Allegiance. The company estimated the full investment at about $500,000. It did not identify the Marine Corps base, the exact product configuration, planned throughput or the implementation schedule.
The technical premise is hybrid fiber-copper networking. Rather than treating existing copper runs as an obstacle, Actelis said it applies advanced signal processing to deliver what it calls fiber-grade performance over those wires. That can matter on a large campus where voice, administrative systems and connected operational devices may span many older buildings. The company described the resulting service as digital and cyber-hardened, but did not disclose its security architecture, encryption configuration or testing results for this installation.
VoIP itself shifts voice traffic onto the data network. That can simplify operations by putting telephones and other networked services under a common infrastructure, but it also makes network resilience and security central to voice availability. For a military base, an upgrade that avoids broad civil works could reduce disruption to building occupants while creating a more manageable route away from legacy analog telephone systems.
Actelis said its technology is certified by the Joint Interoperability Test Command and the National Institute of Standards and Technology for FIPS standards, and is listed on the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List. Those statements point to government-readiness considerations, but agencies evaluating a similar deployment would still need to confirm that the precise hardware, software version and operating configuration meet their own authorization and monitoring requirements.
The Marine Corps order is an actual deployment, not a hypothetical use case. A comparable application could arise at another federal campus with widely distributed buildings and usable legacy cabling, where an agency needs to replace aging voice service but cannot readily close roads or facilities to install fiber. In that situation, retaining existing wire could shorten the physical-work portion of a modernization project; it would not remove the need for network design, cybersecurity controls, testing and support planning.
The development is consequential because it applies a familiar infrastructure constraint to a named defense environment: legacy cabling can slow communications modernization and make a conventional replacement costly. The order is relatively small, and the company has not provided independent performance or cost data. Still, it illustrates how agencies can weigh hybrid-network designs against full fiber rebuilds when deployment speed, physical disruption and cyber oversight matter as much as raw bandwidth.