| Joint Management Operations Subsystem
JMOS
The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the beginning stages of migrating the majority of switched circuit communications infrastructure to a packet based architecture using the Internet Protocol (IP). This transformation will encompass an end-to-end evolution including SATCOM links, IP networking hardware, management tools, and processes required to support Transformational IP services of Transponded SATCOM (TIPSOTS). IP is an attractive protocol for use by DoD because of the significant development of IP within the commercial industry into a mature, robust, reliable, and flexible transport technology. The extreme flexibility of IP requires a robust control and management architecture for large Wide Area Networks (WAN) to maintain throughput, mitigate failures, optimize resources, and minimize the anomolies associated with IP networking such as congestion and latency. For the successful migration to an IP-based communications architecture, DoD must implement an effective management concept that integrates into the existing telecommunications management architecture.
As the commercial industry has been leading the IP endeavor well over the past decade, commercial off the shelf (COTS) products are available which can provide the required management capability, eliminating the need for internal development efforts which can be costly and time constraining.
The Joint Management and Operations Subsystem (JMOS) is envisioned to be an array of highly sophisticated, commercial off the shelf (COTS) OSS/BSS software tools to provide the functionality required for essential operations management of IP Modem Networks for Transformational IP Services over Transponded Satellites (TIPSOTS). It will monitor and report IP and RF network performance and traffic statistics of multiple deployed IP Modem Networks to provide the comprehensive situational awareness information required for ensuring efficient use and operation of SATCOM resources.
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