Rapid Prototyping using Local Area Network (LAN) Technologies

An ethernet local area network and ISO/OSI transport and network layer software package was used to establish connectivity between functional components of an intergatewaying testbed. Standard interfaces were used to support session functions, thus, simplifying the coding effort on the variety of testbed hardware and insuring the portability of developed code. An overall thrust of the rapid prototyping effort was the minimizing of prototype specific code and efficiency modularization of software elements.