T-952 · dive target 14.01.2029

Comms · M-23

ABYSS-Link Acoustic Modem

Talking through water with sound at 133–150 kHz — slow, but it works in the deep.

ABYSS-Link carries data through the water itself, as sound. Bandwidth is tiny compared with radio, so we send compact status and commands, not video — but it is the only link that works while submerged.

LAYER 2/2 — ENGINEERING

For engineers

The channel is brutal: multipath, Doppler from vehicle motion, and frequency-dependent absorption. We use a robust modulation with heavy forward error correction, accepting low throughput for link reliability over range.

Where it lives in the build

M-23 ABYSS-Link Acoustic Modem Planned See on roadmap →

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