Analysis of Government Facsimile Equipment and Networks

Abstract

The purpose of this task is to investigate strategic and tactical facsimile equipments and networks employed by the Federal Government (including both those currently in the field and those due for deployment in the near future), determine their characteristics in terms of interoperability and compatibility, and, in those instances where incompatibilities are determined, to recommend how they might be made to interoperate. The Federal government uses a wide range of facsimile equipment and networks ranging from commercial, off- the-shelf equipments designed for the office to special ruggedized equipment designed for the battlefield. In general, those equipment fall into two categories: strategic and tactical. Strategic equipments are used in office-like surroundings where the environment is usually well controlled, and operate over networks like the Public Switched Telephone Network (PTN) and the Defense Communications Network (DCN). Two examples of strategic equipments are off-the- shelf, commercially available facsimile equipments (Group 3, etc.) and commercially available equipments modified to communicate through encryption devices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA243139

Entities

Organizations

  • Delta Information Systems (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Communication Channels
  • Communication Systems
  • Communications Protocols
  • Data Compression
  • Data Links
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Communications
  • Facsimile Equipment
  • Facsimile Transmission
  • Gray Scale
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Nato
  • Packet Switching
  • Tactical Communications
  • Telephone Systems
  • Transport Protocols

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.