The goal of this proposal is to design and develop a scalable, high performance, high reliability optical web QoS switch to provide intelligent application layer QoS switching in a seamless manner across the boundary of LAN and WAN to support existing mission critical web-centric data services, voice and data integration, as well as emerging Voice-over-IP and multimedia services. The Phase I work will focus on system architecture designs and a feasibility study for the optical web QoS switch in an IP-enabled operations center to support Army's mission critical applications with pre-defined end-to-end QoS assurance. The output of the Phase I work will be a system design specification, design performance and risk analysis for the proposed optical web QoS switch. Criteria used for performance and feasibility study include complexity (costs), QoS, reliability and scalability. The system design specification will help accelerate development of a scalable optical web QoS switch that would provide dynamic bandwidth, delay, and delay variation management to support end-to-end QoS for Army's mission critical applications. With the described web-centric IP-enabled operation center solution architecture with the proposed optical web QoS switch system, Army would be able to support integrated voice and data services in a seamless manner accross the boundary of LAN and WAN with pre-defined end-to-end QoS assurance through an evolutionary process of the integrated web-centric operations infrastructure. The same IP-enabled operations infrastructure may be extended to support mobility management and location services critical to Army's telemedicine and telemaintenance applications.
