ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The adoption of commercial off the shelf networks, such as Ethernet, FireWire and FibreChannel,
within the avionics community has dramatically changed the architecture of avionics busses and
instrumentation networks. Higher bandwidth links and unified interconnects simplify existing
infrastructure and wiring. But due to their point-to-point nature, networking topologies are
fundamentally different from systems built on legacy bus technologies such as CAIS and MIL-STD-1553. Switched networks and ring topologies pose various challenges for the
implementation of network monitoring hardware, and affect the design of bus monitors and
distributed data acquisition systems.
This paper discusses some of these issues. In particular we address deployment issues,
architectural choices such as pass-through versus tap approach, as well as handling of bandwidth
requirements and complex communication protocols. We illustrate on the basis of a FireWire
monitoring system how these obstacles have been overcome for one given application.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/604899 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Blott, Michaela |
| Contributors | ACRA CONTROL LTD |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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