Douglas,
Some DoD wireless LAN stuff:
"N98-048 TITLE: High Bandwidth, Secure, Portable,
Wireless LAN
OBJECTIVE: Provide a secure/high bandwidth Wireless Local
Area Network (LAN) for networking portable computing systems
in a typical aircraft maintenance avionics environment.
DESCRIPTION: There are currently many efforts underway to
move all of DON toward a complete digital aircraft avionics
integration and maintenance environment .............
Since the data and file storage necessary to perform avionics integration and maintenance can be quite large, another alternative is required for portable systems. The limitations of current technology are particularly apparent when the recall and storage of real
time video and audio is required. Off loading the flight line system via a high speed (>20 Mbps) wireless network offers a logical solution. By making the portable unit a terminal on a network, the user could access database information available in the Automated Maintenance Environment (AME) and/or via "tele-maintenance" of real time audio, video and data to a remotely linked facility. Current state-of-the-art wireless LAN technology does not provide data transmission bandwidths greater than 10 Mbps. This project will exceed this current limit. This effort proposes to develop a wireless LAN technology that will permit multi-user, secure, real time video, audio, and data transmission between a flight line computing device and a remote central processing unit. The wireless LAN must maintain reliable communication between the participants while they are located within or shadowed by the aircraft, hanger, or shipboard structures."
This is from:
nttc.edu
The source document is fall 1997 - the speeds seem slow to me.
George D. |
