Requirements analysis and design for implementation of a satellite link for a local area computer network
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Authors
Lorentzen, Richard B.
Subjects
Satellite link
Local area network
VSAT
Local area network
VSAT
Advisors
Schneidewind, Norman F.
Suh, Myung W.
Date of Issue
1981-12
Date
September 1991
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to provide naval computer students with a basic knowledge on Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite technology and to define the hardware and software requirements at the interface between a VSAT and a Local Area Network (LAN). By restricting a computer network to terrestrial links, a vast amount of knowledge is not accessed because either the terrestrial links can't access the information or the information services are only available via satellite. Existing satellite networks could fill this void. It is important for naval officers to understand the VSAT alternative to terrestrial networking. For the purpose of demonstration, a functional design will be presented for the VSAT linkage to an existing Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Administrative Sciences (AS) Department Token-Ring LAN.
This study will include a technological overview of a VSAT network, requirements analysis for
establishing a VSAT link to a LAN, and the functional design of a VSAT link to the NPS AS Department Token-Ring LAN.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
76 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.