NexusWare® WAN: Protocol Software

PTs' suite of NexusWare® WAN protocols provides all the critical pieces required for timely application development. The suite provides a wide range of WAN protocols and radar formats that are supported on PTs' line of high-performance blades, servers, and recorders. This powerful combination of software and hardware allows OEMs and System Integrators to create flexible and efficient radar data distribution and recording platforms, converged serial gateways, and front-end I/O systems.

NexusWare WAN software products are offered both as installable software packages for NexusWare Core (a comprehensive, highly integrated, Linux® distribution and tools) and as turn-key packages for those developers interested in the protocol package by itself. Whether the installable or the turn-key solution is chosen, developers will be provided with a well-documented and powerful API to assist the development process.

Consistent API

All NexusWare WAN software include a simple, easy-to-use API, which runs on all of PTs' blades and platforms. The API provides a standard interface to the protocol stacks and radar formats. This makes application programs easily portable among PTs' broad range of products.

The following routines are included:

 

MPSopen Open Connection MPSread Get data from a connection
MPSclose Close Connection MPSioctl Send a control message on a connection
MPSputmsg Send a message on a connection MSPpoll Monitor connections
MPSgetmsg Get a message from a connection MPSperror Display system error message
MPSwrite Send data on a connection    

The following is an architectural overview of the API:


 

A few of the many protocol formats supported by NexusWare WAN radar software include:

  •  Radar Receiver
      - CD-2
      - Marconi 10-Bit
      - ASTERIX
      - NEC Radar Extractor
      - Raduga-2
      - Thomson-CSF
      - Toshiba
      - Modified Eurocontrol
      - TPS-43
      - TPS-75
      - General 18-Bit
  • TADIL-B
      - TADIL-B (Tactical Digital Information Link)
      - WEC/Jordan 
        (Westinghouse Electric Corporation)
      - UDL (Unclassified Data Link)
      - Link1
      - ATDL (Army Tactical Data Link)
      - Link-11B
  • HDLC
      - ABM/LAPB
      - LAPD
      - NRM
      - SDLC
  • X.25
  • Frame Relay
  • ASYNC

     and more...

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 "...Performance Technologies' suite of radar communications protocol stacks was a logical choice for us because it allows quick connection to the vast majority of commercial and military radar systems in use worldwide."

Eric Conn, Vice President of Engineering, Solipsys

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