A modular Gigabit Ethernet backbone for NEPTUNE and other ocean observatories

Author

Maffei, Andrew ; Chave, A. ; Bailey, John ; Bradley, Albert ; Garcia, X. ; Gelman, Haywood ; Lerner, S. ; Sonnichsen, Frederick

Author_Institution

Woods Hole Oceanogr. Instn., MA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

25-27 June 2003

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Ethernet is the most popular technology used for local area networks (LANs). Recently, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology has successfully competed with SONET and other legacy alternatives such as ATM and frame relay for metropolitan area network (WAN) implementations. This paper describes a modular ocean observatory node design resulting from design activities of the NEPTUNE observatory data communications team. Internal node modules based on Gigabit Ethernet, point-to-point wave division multiplexing (WDM) and TCP/IP (Internet) protocol technologies are employed to define communications building blocks used in the design of the NEPTUNE regional scale ocean observatory communications system and are also applicable to coastal, buoyed and autonomous observatory nodes.

Keywords

data communication; local area networks; marine communication; transport protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; Internet protocol; LAN; NEPTUNE observatory data communications team; TCP/IP protocol; autonomous observatory nodes; buoyed observatory nodes; coastal observatory nodes; local area networks; modular Gigabit Ethernet backbone; ocean observatories; ocean observatory communications system; point-to-point wave division multiplexing; wave division multiplexing; Asynchronous transfer mode; Ethernet networks; Frame relay; Local area networks; Marine technology; Metropolitan area networks; Observatories; Oceans; SONET; Spine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies, 2003. The 3rd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7775-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSC.2003.1224140

Filename

1224140