Description / Abstract:
This standard establishes the design requirements for a fiber
optic serial interconnect protocol, topology, and media. The
application target for this standard is the interconnection of
multiple aerospace sensors, processing resources, bulk storage
resources and communications resources onboard aerospace platforms.
The standard is for subsystem interconnection, as opposed to
intra-backplane connection.
Purpose
The purpose of this standard is the specification of a highly
reliable and fault tolerant fiber optic network that is compatible
with the harsh thermal, mechanical, and radiation environments of
aerospace applications requiring small size and low power
dissipation. This standard will specify a node-to-node operating
data rate range of 100 Mbps through 2.5 Gbps. The standard will
define physical and logical protocol, and sub-network management
functions which allow mixing highspeed synchronous and asynchronous
distributed access for deterministic communications.