This paper describes how gateways provide interoperability for the Department of Defense (DoD). At the same time these gateway interoperability solutions create problems including, amongst others: maintenance difficulties, certification issues, communications bottlenecks, single points of failure, impacts on communication network planning and monitoring. However, there are some significant opportunities created by introducing gateways. Gateways provide a near term option to make legacy systems interoperate. This paper discusses the pros and cons of gateways. Since legacy DoD systems will not be removed from the field at once, a translation requirement will remain until all systems use the future common infrastructure and a common information representation format. Because the term gateway is overloaded, the paper recommends a definition for a communications gateway and some associated terms. We address the benefits and drawbacks of commonly used gateway approaches and provide a short history of translators and gateways. One of the greatest challenges is creation and certification of the translation and forwarding rules. Finally, we address recommendations for future gateways that utilize a fully layered architecture.


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    Title :

    Gateways - 101


    Contributors:
    Dodge, D.S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 10 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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