StarWebT Optical Network Infrastructure

"The Army needs a new generation of optical network architecture, and its associated technologies, to support its future tactical network applications. This new optical network architecture has to accommodate various transmission media such as copper(twisted pairs or coaxial cables), RF/microwave, free space optical transmission, and fiber optic networks. To address these requirements, Broadata Communications, Inc. (BCI) has been developing a patented StarWebTM optical networking architecture and itsassociated patented technologies. In this project, BCI proposes to develop this StarWebTM technology specifically for the Army's tactical network applications and environment. The StarWebTM creates a unified, low cost, physical optical networkinfrastructure that seamlessly combines campus intranet, regional access, and metropolitan backbone networks as one single integrated network for a wide variety of QoS (quality of service) multimedia data communication, processing, and serviceapplications. In addition, the StarWebTM provides clear-channel connectivity for diverse TDM based voice and IP based data traffic, military based tactical radio equipment, as well as native, real-time, analog and digital audio/video delivery. The overallgoal of this project is to demonstrate the performance and potential of the proposed StarWebTM technology for the Army's tactical network applications. In addition to the Army's tactical network applications