SHPL: The Scaleable High-Performance LAN on the CVN 71

Abstract

This paper reports on the Scaleable High Performance LAN (SHPL), the networking infrastructure for the Navy's FY-96 Joint Power Projection/Real Time Support (JPP/RTS) Core Technology Program aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). The program demonstrates advanced concepts in strike planning, visualization, and execution using the latest technology in high speed computing, 3-D graphics, and networking. The Joint Power Projection application that SHPL supports involves the coordination of Air Tasking Orders (ATOs) among CTAPS, TSCM and APPEX, the display via APPEX of TSCM auto-route missions, the review of missions by Strike Lead, the passing of missions to TAMPS for detailed aircraft planning, the review of the mission concept by CAG, and the overall mission preview by TSCM and APPEX. The SHPL, or networking element of the JPP/RTS Core Technology Program, is a totally fiber optic shipboard network that is based on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and switched Ethernet technology. The SHPL network demonstrates both permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) and switched virtual circuits (SVCs), handles IP frames via both classical IP (RFC 1577) and FORE IP, and demonstrates the LAN emulation functionality of the ATM Forum's LANE 1.0 standard. In addition to handling computer data such as file transfer, imagery and email, the SHPL network handles voice and video in the form of interactive video teleconferencing (VTC), shared X-windows applications via SharedX, interactive electronic whiteboarding, and NTSC video via ATM. SHPL also demonstrates the network management of a hybrid ATM and Switched Ethernet network, and cable plant configuration management. The use of SHPL on the CVN-71 demonstrates what high performance networking technology can do for next generation Navy ships, and how networking can extend the useful life of current ships.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA364970

Entities

People

  • C. Hansen
  • L. M. Blackwell
  • P. D. Adams
  • R. A. Fastring

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Ethernet
  • Local Area Networks
  • Navy
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Ships
  • Standards
  • Teleconferencing
  • Uss Theodore Roosevelt

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics