ATDNet research at the National Security Agency

Author

Wilcox, Chris A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Security Agency, USA

Volume

10

Issue

4

fYear

1996

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

47

Abstract

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a military support agency with a significant requirement to deliver timely, relevant information to the warfighter in a secure manner. In these austere budget times, the Department of Defense (DoD) can no longer afford to build and operate its own private networks to support this requirement. The Global Grid project is a fitting vehicle for researching those areas that NSA has identified as critical in enabling public networks to satisfy its information delivery requirement: asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) interoperability, distributed computing, information security (INFOSEC), and high-speed network connections

Keywords

SONET; asynchronous transfer mode; computer networks; cryptography; military communication; open systems; telecommunication network routing; ATDNet; ATM interoperability; Advanced Technology Demonstration Network; Department of Defense; Global Grid project; National Security Agency; USA; asynchronous transfer mode; distributed computing; encryption; high-speed network connections; information security; military support agency; public networks; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Grid computing; High-speed networks; Military computing; National security; SONET; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/65.527022

Filename

527022