NETWARS SOFTWARE RELEASES
The NETWARS Program Office is pleased to announce the release of NETWARS version 7.0 (JCSS 7.0). This release offers new functionality and model enhancements that will help meet your mission requirements more effectively.
A brief summary of JCSS 7.0 new functionality and model enhancement is listed below:
NEW NETWORK COMMUNICATIOSN DEVIDCE MODELS
- Enhanced EPLR_RS Model: The enhanced EPLRS model adds capabilities to JCSS that allows for more detailed studies. The new model provides support for logical time slots, frequency channels, spread spectrum frequency hopping and includes support for HDR and CMSA needlines
- Radio Model Enhancements: The PRC Radio models have been enhanced with a new Network Access Delay scheme, updated default values to match real world attributes and integration into the UHF DAMA models
- SCREAM Devices: These devices now support Circuit Emulation over an IP or ATM network, ATM switching, Ethernet routing and IP routing all on one single node
- H.323: JCSS 7.0 now features new support for the H.323 protocol. Deploy Border Elements, Gatekeepers, Gateways and H.323 Terminals to allow for VoIP to Analog communication
- VTC: VTC models were enhanced to now route through Circuit Switch devices. Users can now use a MCU with multiple VTC Terminals to simulate a Video Teleconference
- SHOUTip: JCSS 7.0 now features the SHOUTip device from N.E.T Inc. which serves as a gateway conversion device. The main types of conversion involve transferring voice signaling and date between legacy voice networks and IP networks
- Nested Promina Circuits: JCSS 7.0 provides support for routing promina circuits over promina circuits. Initially in NETWARS, a WAN side port of promina could only be connected to a WAN port of another promina. In JCSS 7.0 support is provided for a promina WAN > LAN connection
- SCPS-TP: JCSS 7.0 features the implementation of SCPS-TP (Space Communications Protocol Standards, Transport Protocol) which is one of a suite of standard data handling protocols designed to address the problems of reliable data communication over long distances. This is an enhancement to the PEP model in NETWARS
NEW AND ENHANCED GUI FEATURES
- Capacity Planning Enhancements: JCSS 7.0 features an enhanced CP support for Link-16 and UHF DAMA models. Users are now able to visualize their Link-16 and UHF DAMA networks in CP or Logical View
- Modeler Support in JCSS: Users now have the ability to launch modeler from within the JCSS software to make model changes. (Modeler License Required)
- Enhanced Circuit GUI: JCSS 7.0 introduces a Generic Circuit API that allows users to deploy JCSS standard circuits (i.e. Prominas) through a single circuit deployment
- Improved XDI support: The Enhanced XDI utility allows users to import network topologies without manually deploying the network, using router configuration files that import everything – including routing protocol configurations and port configurations
- JCSS Templates: In a continued effort to maintain and update template libraries, JCSS 7.0 showcases the following new templates:
- JNN Templates: The Joint Network Node template illustrates the deployment of the JNN for each echelon at the division level and below.
- Satellite Templates: The satellite unit templates represent real world satellite constellations. They include latitude and longitude values for the organizations and OPFACS as well as satellite uplink and downlink frequencies
- Hybrid API: The Hybrid API allows the user to create tracer packets (a single packet which can represent several packets) dynamically without having to specify background IERs or OPNET Flows. This allows simulations to run more efficiently while maintaining fairly accurate statistics (some statistics are lost due to the packet abstraction). Many of the 2007 JCSS models (including SHOUTip, H.323, EPLRS, etc.) use this functionality