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Lewis Information Network (LINK): Background and overviewThe NASA Lewis Research Center supports many research facilities with many isolated buildings, including wind tunnels, test cells, and research laboratories. These facilities are all located on a 350 acre campus adjacent to the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. The function of NASA-Lewis is to do basic and applied research in all areas of aeronautics, fluid mechanics, materials and structures, space propulsion, and energy systems. These functions require a great variety of remote high speed, high volume data communications for computing and interactive graphic capabilities. In addition, new requirements for local distribution of intercenter video teleconferencing and data communications via satellite have developed. To address these and future communications requirements for the next 15 yrs, a project team was organized to design and implement a new high speed communication system that would handle both data and video information in a common lab-wide Local Area Network. The project team selected cable television broadband coaxial cable technology as the communications medium and first installation of in-ground cable began in the summer of 1980. The Lewis Information Network (LINK) became operational in August 1982 and has become the backbone of all data communications and video.
Document ID
19880002543
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Schulte, Roger R. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1987
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Report/Patent Number
E-3724
NASA-TM-100162
NAS 1.15:100162
Accession Number
88N11925
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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