The Joint Management and Operations Subsystem JMOS

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the beginning stages of migrating the majority of switched circuit communications infrastructure to a packet based architecture using the Internet Protocol (IP). This transformation will encompass an end-to-end evolution including SATCOM links, IP networking hardware, management tools, and processes required to support transformational IP services of transponded SATCOM (TIPSOTS). IP is an attractive protocol for use by DoD because of the significant development of IP within the commercial industry into a mature, robust, reliable, and flexible transport technology. The extreme flexibility of IP requires a robust management and control architecture for large wide area networks (WAN) to maintain throughput, mitigate failures, optimize resources, and minimize the anomalies associated with IP networking such as congestion and latency. For the successful migration to an IP-based communications architecture, it requires the implementation of an effective management concept which integrates into the existing management and control architecture. As the commercial industry has been leading the IP endeavor well over the past decade, commercial off the shelf (COTS) products are available which can provide the required management capability, eliminating the need for internal development efforts which can be costly and time constraining