Reticulate Micro, Inc. and ZeroAlpha Solutions, Ltd. announced that ZeroAlpha will serve as a value-added reseller for Reticulate’s VAST™ video streaming and compression platform to the European military market.

ZeroAlpha plans to embed Reticulate’s VAST encoder within its existing ecosystem of tactical radio and SATCOM partners to provide resilient video streaming for a variety of missions. Initial demos are slated to begin next month with NATO and U.K. government customers.

U.K.-based ZeroAlpha is a leading supplier of networking hardware, software and sustainable power solutions to major primes in the U.K. as well as European defense and security markets. The firm holds a NATO framework contract, and is already serving military customers in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Latvia and Poland.

“The team at ZeroAlpha, comprised of well-respected industry and military veterans, is intimately familiar with customers’ needs and is trusted to deliver relevant and nimble solutions to warfighters. We hold them in high regard as our trusted partner in the region,” said Josh Cryer, president and CEO of Reticulate Micro.

ZeroAlpha’s focus is on missions conducted over shorter timeframes and with a reduced deployment footprint, requiring smaller, lighter sustainably powered hardware that is scalable to meet current and future mission roles.

Reticulate’s VAST video encoder fits well with ZeroAlpha’s solution focus because it’s designed to deliver real-time video streaming in constrained bandwidth environments previously considered operationally impractical. Available as a software-based encoder within existing edge computing platforms or as a hardware appliance, VAST supports high-definition video streaming over connections as low as 10 kbps, enabling users to share video over any transport from the latest high-throughput satellites or MANET radios to UHF TACSAT radios.

“Reticulate’s VAST product is an ideal fit to our deploying lighter concept for communications, since it allows people with limited bandwidth to get better quality images and streams from locations at reach,” says Stewart Burton, founder and owner of ZeroAlpha. “We’ve got demos lined up already. The U.K. military and U.K. Emergency Services are already showing strong interest in VAST.”