Gigabit COTS Ethernet switch evaluation for avionics

Author

Meier, J.P. ; Kim, Sungho ; George, A. ; Oral, S.

Author_Institution

ACS Dept., Rockwell Collins Adv. Tech. Center, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

739

Lastpage

740

Abstract

The evolving network needs of both commercial and military aircraft are expanding the requirements from slow speeds (1 Mbps) to over 1 Gbps for many new aircraft designs, driven primarily by advanced video technology. Low-cost Ethernet switch technology is a key enabler for advanced aircraft system interconnection. Our research focuses on the evaluation of several gigabit Ethernet (GE) COTS switches to meet avionic requirements. The results indicate that GE COTS switches are beginning to approach the required performance for future avionic applications.

Keywords

LAN interconnection; avionics; electronic switching systems; local area networks; COTS switches; Cisco Systems Catalyst 6500 switch; Extreme Networks Summit 1i switch; Nortel Networks PassPort 8100 switch; aircraft system interconnection; avionics; commercial aircraft; gigabit Ethernet switches; military aircraft; video technology; Aerospace electronics; Bandwidth; Costs; Delay; Ethernet networks; Jitter; Military aircraft; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2002. Proceedings. LCN 2002. 27th Annual IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1591-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2002.1181856

Filename

1181856