Innovative C4I Technologies - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Services Over PCS

Recently, there has been a trend in the military to utilize ATM as a backbone for the delivery of multimedia digital services and to extend these services to the mobile tactical user. Concurrently, there has also been an active effort to reduce the cost of wireless mobile communications by applying commercial cellular and personal communications services (PCS) to the military arena. An opportunity exists to merge these two technologies to create a product which will extend to her tactical user, the multimedia services offered by ATM using the low cost commercial infrastructure of PCS. SRC, a leading researcher and developer of wireless ATM technology, supported by TWS, a provider of engineering services to commercial PCS operators, proposes to thoroughly investigate all issues surrounding the transport of ATM services over commercial PCS networks. Based on this investigation, SRC will propose a detailed architecture of the protocols and equipment required to provide this capability. The proposed architecture will be based on the use of current and pending standards in both the ATM and PCS communities facilitating interoperability with other commercial off-the-shelf products. This product would apply to both the military and commercial markets by allowing the distribution of digital voice, video, and data services to the mobile PCS user.