Responsibilities

ATDnet was established as an DARPA high performance networking research project in cooperation with the other participating agencies. DARPA has lead responsibility for overall technical coordination of the ATDnet research agenda. DISA is coordinating SONET network management and providing system engineering support. NRL is performing ATM network administration and configuration support. Each participating agency is responsible for its local network infrastructure and its experimental program. Program management and experiments are coordinated through the ATDnet Steering Committee, co-chaired by DARPA and DISA. Industrial participation will be via voluntary participation or subscribed through contractual actions by the participating agencies.