ASSURACON: the ASSURed Atm CONnection

Author

Mattoon, Tom

Author_Institution

Div. Res., Dev., Test & Evaluation, Naval Command Control & Ocean Surveillance Center, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

35009

Firstpage

197

Abstract

Development of a security device for assuring ATM communications from a trusted workstation is described in the context of a comprehensive workstation security solution. Patterned after a STU-III device that has evolved into a secure front-end for a trusted multimedia workstation, the ASSURACON design provides a low cost, high performance multi-level secure device that supports both secure and non-secure ATM streams. The emergence of ATM communications capability, the availability of CMW technology and the development of multimedia teleconferencing applications bring together opportunities for military system developers to impart communications assurance into CMW platforms that support multimedia teleconferencing. Advances in system engineering and exploitation of new operational paradigms are helping position the role of multimedia teleconferencing for the military user to support voice, video, file transfer, display export and related applications. This paper describes the development of a high performance cell stream security device that supports a comprehensive workstation security solution

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; computer networks; cryptography; engineering workstations; military communication; multimedia communication; telecommunication terminals; teleconferencing; workstations; ASSURACON; ASSURed Atm CONnection; ATM communications; CMW technology; STU-III device; assured ATM connection; file transfer; high performance cell stream security device; military system; multi-level secure device; multimedia teleconferencing applications; secure front-end; security device; trusted workstation; video; voice; Availability; Context; Costs; Military communication; Multimedia systems; Security; Streaming media; Systems engineering and theory; Teleconferencing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1995. MILCOM '95, Conference Record, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2489-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1995.483298

Filename

483298