The Advanced Technology Demonstration Network (ATDnet) is a high performance networking testbed in the Washington D.C. area. It is intended to be representative of Metropolitan Area Networks topologies. Established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to enable collaboration among Defense and other Federal agencies, ATDnet has a primary goal to serve as an experimental platform for diverse network research and demonstration initiatives.
The ATDnet concept is to interconnect several agency sites with high speed fiber optic transmission media and to overlay this media. Pair-wise and multiple party research initiatives and experiments are planned over the lifetime of the testbed. Experimental testing of the bitways and a diversity of service and applications experiments are intended to gain insight into the potential of this new performance level.
Historical ATDnet Federal Agency MembersNaval Research Laboratory (NRL)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
US Naval Observatory (USNO)
United States Naval Research Laboratory
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