7.0 Communications
Introduces communications aboard Deep Space 9, noting its similarity to a planetside outpost, the categories of traffic vital to station operation, and the mapping and hardening of com hardware paths against security penetrations.
Communications in the Deep Space 9 environment involve many of the same types of systems and links as those required for mobile platforms such as starships. For the most part, the station can be considered in the same category as a planetside outpost, in which the effects of high warp velocities and numbers of embedded hull antennae are not important considerations. Intrastation voice and data traffic, station-to-ship, ship-to-ship, and distant subspace packet transmissions are all vital to the daily operation of the station, if not its very survival in the current threat climate. It must be noted that while all discrete com hardware paths have been mapped and hardened against security penetrations, cautions must still be taken with all operations-critical information (see 7.6).