Multiprotocol Gateway Capabilities Demonstration Report.

摘要

The National Communications System is working to promote standards within the data communication and telecommunication fields to increase the interoperability of diverse communication systems. These interoperability efforts improve the NS/EP communication capabilities of the nation by providing additional interconnectivity among Federal telecommunication assets. One such effort is determining the feasibility of using the excess transmission capacity of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) out-of-band signaling channels to reconstitute disrupted networks. Present telecommunication networks use one of many different protocol suites to interconnect their services. Networks employing different protocols cannot communicate with one another because the diverse protocols are incompatible. To address the protocol incompatibility issue, we recommend developing mechanisms, such as gateways that provide protocol conversions, to interconnect networks using diverse protocols.