Defence minister Manohar Parrikar today said defence communication network (DCN) is an important step towards joint operation and integrated communication architecture between the Army, Navy and Air Force. Dedicating the DCN to the nation, Mr Parrikar said these tri service net centricity will put in place the mechanism for jointmanship which will exponentially improve the military might of the nation in operations. Mr Parrikar complimented the Corps of Signals of Indian Army on the exemplary implementation of the first tri-services network of the Armed Forces, thus realising the vision of Digital India.<br/><br/>Chairman chief of staff committee and chief of the Air Staff Arup Raha said DCN is a major step towards ensuring Network centricity across the three services. Mr Raha said the network provides converged voice, data and video services to the Tri-services based on secured system with adequate redundancy.<br/><br/><br/>Lt Gen Nitin Kohli, signal officer in chief said the network has a pan India reach. Lt Gen Kohili complimented Premkumar Seshadri, HCL infosystems MP for implementing this unique network.