Create and sustain Edge Superiority through the power of automation.

NTS has developed an innovative automation solution called MANTLE, our Edge Activation Platform (EAP), purpose-built for the public sector through years of dedicated infrastructure automation development and direct customer engagements.

The public sector faces significant challenges in initializing and configuring Day 0 infrastructure. These challenges result in considerable time and cost for deploying infrastructure at branch offices, remote sites, or tactical environments, such as those used by the Department of Defense (DoD). Current processes often require tens or even hundreds of hours to receive, power, and configure essential infrastructure components for field operations. These components typically include networking devices (e.g., routers, switches, and firewalls), server infrastructure (e.g., physical servers, virtual environments, and applications), and end-user devices, particularly Android-based systems. Many of these tasks rely heavily on manual effort or fragmented, ad hoc automation through custom scripting, which introduces inefficiencies and inconsistencies.

MANTLE directly addresses this gap by leveraging advanced automation for the Day 0 configuration of these infrastructure components, even in environments with limited or no connectivity (Disconnected, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited, or DDIL environments). In one Department of Defense program, MANTLE reduced deployment time from approximately 96 hours to just over 90 minutes, demonstrating a dramatic improvement in operational efficiency. In another instance, a customer used MANTLE to provision 2,000 Android-based devices in just 8 hours—a task that previously required over 265 hours.

In the public sector, MANTLE represents a transformative automation platform that significantly accelerates infrastructure setup and deployment, reduces costs and on-site engineering requirements, and empowers customers to achieve what we call Edge Superiority. By simplifying the deployment and management of complex infrastructure, MANTLE enables enhanced capabilities for remote sites while minimizing operational complexity.