Designing a net-centric DOD teleport

The Department of Defense (DoD) Teleport Program Office (TPO) under the Defense Information Systems Agency is in the process of defining a transformational net-centric architecture for the future. The DoD Teleport system provides defense information service network (DISN) and global information grid bandwidth expansion (GIG-BE) transport access to deployed warfighters via military and commercial satellite Earth stations from around the world. The TPO has begun to design a net-centric Teleport architecture based on providing all the voice, video, and data requirements of deployed user via a converged Internet protocol (IP)-based transport system, consisting of: IP-based networking modems; a black convergence router suite; voice over IP (VoIP) gateway for unclassified voice; and serial-to-IP conversion for circuit-based network services. This architecture exists in parallel with the current implementation for some time to enable a gradual transition by the deployed warfighter.