RAJANT + RAJANT HEALTH INCORPORATED (RHI) UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE
One Distributed Architecture For The Edge
The Rajant / RHI Unified Edge Stack brings traditionally separate communications, compute, sensing, security, software, and intelligence capabilities into a distributed architecture designed for operations that move, change, and cannot depend on fixed infrastructure.
It is neither simply a standalone Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) radio pipe nor a top-level Command-and-Control (C2) Common Operating Picture (COP). It brings Layer 2 peer-to-peer transport, multi-protocol sensor ingestion, distributed edge compute and application orchestration, and security capabilities into a broader edge operating environment.
Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh® communications foundation provides the resilient connectivity layer across which distributed compute, sensing, applications, intelligence, and autonomous systems can increasingly operate closer to where data is generated and action happens.
Platform Definition
RAJANT + RHI UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE
ONE DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EDGE
The Rajant / RHI Unified Edge Stack brings traditionally separate communications, compute, sensing, security, software, and intelligence capabilities into a distributed architecture designed for operations that move, change, and cannot depend on fixed infrastructure.
It is neither simply a standalone Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) radio pipe nor a top-level Command-and-Control (C2) Common Operating Picture (COP). It brings Layer 2 peer-to-peer transport, multi-protocol sensor ingestion, distributed edge compute and application orchestration, and security capabilities into a broader edge operating environment.
Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh® communications foundation provides the resilient connectivity layer across which distributed compute, sensing, applications, intelligence, and autonomous systems can increasingly operate closer to where data is generated and action happens.
SENSE → CONNECT → SECURE → COMPUTE → DECIDE → ACT
This architecture extends Rajant’s proven communications foundation into distributed edge capabilities designed to move data, workloads, and intelligence closer to the people, machines, sensors, and autonomous systems generating and using them.
Architecture / Layer Model
SENSE → CONNECT → SECURE → COMPUTE → DECIDE → ACT is the architecture model.
FROM PHYSICAL DATA TO DISTRIBUTED ACTION
The Rajant / RHI architecture connects capabilities across the operational edge through six functional stages.
SENSE
Sensors / SAS
Physical systems generate information across sensors, machines, cameras, robotics, RF environments, and other data sources. SAS provides a framework for bringing supported data sources into distributed applications and edge workflows.
CONNECT
InstaMesh® / SlipStream
InstaMesh provides the Layer 2 peer-to-peer communications fabric connecting Rajant network nodes. Rather than depending on a central controller to determine network paths, InstaMesh continuously evaluates available connections and moves packets across the network as conditions change.
SlipStream extends Rajant networking into wired and other supported communications environments.
SECURE
RiSM
RiSM extends security capabilities into distributed communications and computing environments, helping protect data and workloads operating across the edge.
COMPUTE
Cowbell / CORA
Cowbell brings compute and networking resources closer to the point of operation. CORA is the distributed edge application environment for running and coordinating containerized workloads on compatible edge resources, including when continuous connectivity to a centralized cloud is unavailable.
DECIDE
AI / Applications
Applications, analytics, and AI workloads can operate closer to where data is generated and used, reducing unnecessary dependence on centralized infrastructure and enabling increasingly distributed decision support.
ACT
Autonomous Systems
People, machines, and autonomous platforms can use information and applications operating across the distributed architecture to respond closer to where events occur.
Component-Level Ontology
InstaMesh®
DATA-LINK FABRIC LAYER
WHAT IT IS:
A Layer 2 peer-to-peer data-link fabric that moves packets dynamically across available network paths without requiring a centralized network controller to determine those paths.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
InstaMesh is not a traditional Layer 3 MANET and does not rely on a central controller or IP routing table to choose paths.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Create and continuously adapt the Layer 2 communications fabric connecting Rajant network nodes.
CORA
DISTRIBUTED EDGE APPLICATION & ORCHESTRATION LAYER
WHAT IT IS:
CORA is the distributed edge application environment for running and coordinating containerized workloads on compatible edge resources, including when continuous connectivity to a centralized cloud is unavailable.
CORA extends computing beyond a single centralized server by enabling workloads to operate closer to the systems generating and using data.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
A third-party software plugin or an architecture inherently dependent on centralized cloud execution.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Coordinate distributed application and compute execution across compatible edge resources.
SAS
SENSOR & DATA INGESTION LAYER
WHAT IT IS:
A multi-protocol edge telemetry ingestion capability designed to connect physical and digital data sources with applications operating at the edge.
SAS provides a framework for working across supported sensor and data protocols, enabling information generated by machines, sensors, robotics, cameras, and other systems to become available to distributed applications.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
A centralized database or enterprise data lake.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Bridge physical-world data sources with distributed applications and edge-compute environments.
RiSM / RPT
SECURITY LAYER
WHAT IT IS:
Security technologies designed to extend protection into distributed communications, compute, and edge environments.
These capabilities are intended to help protect sensitive data, applications, and workloads operating across distributed physical assets.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
Simply application-level security or conventional VPN functionality layered onto the architecture.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Extend security closer to the hardware, communications, and workloads operating at the distributed edge.
APT
LAYER 2 EXTENSION
WHAT IT IS:
APT is Rajant’s tunneling function for extending the Layer 2 fabric across supported external networks.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
A security module or standalone application environment.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Extend Rajant’s Layer 2 communications fabric across supported external network infrastructure.
FLYING COWBELL / EDGE COMPUTE HARDWARE
HARDWARE PAYLOAD LAYER
WHAT IT IS:
Purpose-built edge compute and networking hardware designed to bring communications and processing resources directly onto physical platforms and into operational environments.
Depending on configuration, these platforms can combine edge-compute resources with Rajant communications capabilities in form factors designed for mobile and distributed operations.
WHAT IT IS NOT:
Simply a sensor or autonomous platform.
PRIMARY ROLE:
Bring communications and compute closer to the systems generating, moving, and acting on data.
How Components Work Together
FROM DATA TO ACTION ACROSS THE DISTRIBUTED EDGE
Rajant technologies solve different problems, but their broader value comes from how those capabilities can work together.
SENSE
A sensor, machine, camera, robotic platform, or other system generates data. SAS connects supported data sources with applications operating at the edge.
CONNECT
InstaMesh and the broader communications environment provide resilient connectivity as assets move and conditions change.
SECURE
Security capabilities help protect communications, data, and workloads across the distributed environment.
COMPUTE
Cowbell and CORA bring processing and application execution closer to where data is generated and used.
DECIDE
Applications, analytics, and AI can process information closer to the operational edge.
ACT
People, machines, and autonomous systems can use that information to respond.
InstaMesh provides the decentralized communications fabric.
CORA is designed to coordinate application execution across compatible edge resources.
SAS is the ingestion layer for supported data sources.
RiSM extends protection onto distributed nodes.
Together, these technologies form the basis for distributed applications and autonomous operations without requiring every workload to depend on centralized infrastructure.
Category Disambiguation
NOT JUST A RADIO. NOT A C2 APPLICATION.
Transport products move data. C2 applications visualize and coordinate it. The Rajant / RHI architecture is the distributed edge layer between those categories.
Rajant’s communications technology remains foundational to the architecture, but communications are not the limit of the combined Rajant / RHI capability.
Traditional communications systems primarily move data between endpoints. Top-level C2 applications primarily consume, visualize, and coordinate information.
The Rajant / RHI architecture occupies a broader distributed-edge role by bringing resilient communications together with compute, sensor and data ingestion, security, software, applications, and intelligence closer to the systems where operations occur.
COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION
InstaMesh® / Kinetic Mesh® / Mesh-Over-Everything
Provides resilient distributed connectivity across people, machines, vehicles, sensors, infrastructure, and autonomous systems.
DISTRIBUTED EDGE
Cowbell / CORA / SAS / RiSM
Extends communications into compute, sensing, security, application execution, and edge intelligence.
DISTRIBUTED OPERATING MODELS
DVH / R2R / Distributed AI / Autonomous Systems
Extends the combined architecture into increasingly distributed compute, machine-to-machine collaboration, AI, and autonomous operations.
The result is an architecture that spans more than network transport while remaining grounded in Rajant’s proven communications foundation.
It provides a foundation for increasingly distributed operating models without requiring every application, workload, sensor, or decision to depend on centralized infrastructure.
Explore the Technologies
The Rajant / RHI distributed architecture brings together technologies spanning communications, compute, sensing, security, software, intelligence, and autonomous systems.
Kinetic Mesh
Rajant’s foundational mobile networking technology.
InstaMesh® / Kinetic Mesh® Technology
Learn how Rajant’s decentralized networking architecture creates resilient connectivity across fixed and mobile assets.
BreadCrumb® Nodes
Explore the physical wireless nodes that run InstaMesh and form Rajant Kinetic Mesh networks.
Network Integration
SlipStream
Learn how SlipStream provides high-throughput connectivity between wired infrastructure, Kinetic Mesh, and supported external network environments.
Security
RiSM — Rajant In-line Security Module
Learn how RiSM provides cryptographic protection at Layer 2 while preserving Rajant network mobility and resilience.
Distributed Computing
Cowbell
Explore Rajant’s distributed edge-computing platform for local processing, application execution, data handling, and AI at the edge.
CORA
Learn how CORA provides distributed application execution and workload orchestration across edge-compute resources.
Edge Hardware
Flying Cowbell
Explore embedded compute and resilient networking for robots, drones, autonomous systems, and mobile platforms.
One Architecture. Multiple Technologies. One Operational Fabric.
InstaMesh creates the resilient network.
SlipStream, APT, and RPT extend that network across heterogeneous infrastructure.
RiSM protects network traffic at Layer 2.
Sensor Adapter Service connects physical-world data to software.
Cowbell provides distributed computing resources.
CORA orchestrates applications and workloads across those resources.
Applications and AI use the resulting data and compute to make decisions at the edge.
Together, these technologies create a Rajant architecture that connects physical infrastructure, communications, security, data, distributed computing, applications, and AI across dynamic edge environments.