Bill Silvey wrote in message
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Hey all...

Has there been a move towards using consumer goods, particularly
electronics, on military a/c? I was watching something about the
AWACS
recently and I thought to myself "I wonder how those systems are all
networked." - which set the ball rolling and I began to wonder if
indeed
there were coax or RJ45 connectors someplace underneath all of that
leading
into 10/100 or 10BaseT network cards.


Yes, there is a push to use more COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf)
equipment where possible.

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Scott
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"Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded
reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq,
there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through
the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and
destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm