Shipboard LAN/WAN
Abstract
The Shipboard LAN / WAN / Integrated Shipboard Network System (ISNS) provides Navy ships, including submarines, and Ashore sites with reliable, high-speed SECRET and UNCLASSIFIED Local Area Networks (LAN)s and wireless network technologies. The LAN provides Basic Network Information Distribution Services (BNIDS) and access to the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) Wide Area Network (WAN) (Secure and Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network -SIPRNet and NIPRNet). It provides the network infrastructure and services to enable real-time information exchange within the ship and between afloat units, Component Commanders, and Fleet Commanders. It is a key factor in the implementation of the Navy's portion of Joint Vision 2020 and the migration of existing legacy systems into the IT-21 strategy. Program funding supports the design, development and testing of the ISNS LAN for surface ships, shore sites, and SubLAN for submarines. The ISNS program maximizes the use of both Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software and hardware. Engineering and technical support is provided so that existing systems will keep pace with hardware and software that continues to be commercially supported. ISNS uses a combination of high speed wired and wireless switches, routers, access points, servers, workstations and operating system software technologies to provide network access to classified and unclassified applications for use by ship's force, embarked units, embarked commanders and their staffs. Under the Navy's information modernization strategy, full synchronization of shipboard networks, mission and information applications, radio/satellite communications, and shore data dissemination infrastructure are necessary to ensure end-to-end mission capability. The Integrated Shipboard Networking System program is closely synchronized on a ship by ship basis with over 460 different systems of application configurations including the following: Global Command and Control System Maritime (GCCS-M), Navy Tactical Command Support System (NTCSS), Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS), Theatre Medical Information Program - Maritime (TMIP-M), Defense Messaging System (DMS), Automated Digital Network System (ADNS), Global Broadcasting System (GBS), Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS) and Information Security (INFOSEC) programs. The ISNS program provides the infrastructure to support implementation/fielding of these programs. The LAN modernization rate must keep pace with hardware and software that is supported commercially in order to provide a supportable and secure FORCEnet infrastructure. ISNS includes Afloat Core Services (ACS) which is the mechanism to deliver the FORCEnet interface to the warfighter. ACS provides a composeable warfighting environment enabling dynamic configuration of capabilities tailored to meet specific warfighting missions. As the warfighting mission changes, the capabilities or services can be re-configured on the fly to meet the new warfighting requirement. This dynamic reconfiguration of services also known as "plug and fight" meets the composeable services vision of FORCEnet. ACS also provides the common core enterprise services and technical framework to allow organizations ubiquitous access to reliable, decision-quality information through a net-based services infrastructure and applications to bridge real-time and near-real-time communities of interest (COI). ACS will empower the end user to pull information from any available source, with minimal latency, to support the mission. Its capabilities will allow Department of the Navy as well as Global Information Grid (GIG) users to task, post, process, use, store, manage and protect information resources on demand for warfighters, policy makers and support personnel. ACS will utilize a spiral process for delivering capability to the warfighter. The ISNS Inc 1, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Networks and Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) programs began migration to ISNS Inc 2/Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES). ISNS Inc 2/CANES will serve to transition numerous Fleet networks to a single, adaptive, available, secure computing network infrastructure while delivering enhanced technologies in: Integrated Voice, Video and Data; Common Computing Environment (CCE); ACS; and Multi-Level Security (MLS)/Cross Domain Solutions (CDS).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 2307_0604231N_5_1319_PB_2013
Related Documents
- Root: Tactical Command System
- Child Accomplishment: Integrated Shipboard Network System (ISNS)