Advanced Simulation Technology inc.
AC-130U: DIS Network Traffic Management
ASTi's Model Builder software includes powerful embedded features that are critical to effective DIS traffic management at the AC-130U facility:
  • Model Builder automatically assigns IP Multicast and IP Broadcast addresses for DIS radio and intercom packets based on pre-defined DIS exercise numbers

  • DIS Intercom buses (both Crew / Instructor buses and Radio Server buses) are assigned to IP Multicast addresses for effective filtering (blocking) by their facility routers. This constrains all DIS intercom traffic to the AC-130U local network

  • DIS Radios are assigned to Broadcast IP addresses so that they are passed through facility routers for long haul distributed exercises

  • The user sets the IP address assignment by DIS exercise number using a text-based configuration file and simple one-line commands