Commander (AAL), U.S. Coast Guard TISCOM, Alexandria, VA 22315-3940

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES POC Technical POC, LT Eugene Lytton, (703) 313-5571 -- Jay Shively, (703) 313-5466, Contracting Officer INMARSAT-B Underway Wide Area Network (WAN) Connectivity. The U.S. Coast Guard Telecommunication and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) is looking for potential sources for an integrated solution to connect an underway shipboard Local Area Network (LAN) over any INMARSAT-B satellite commercial backbone to the Coast Guard's land based Wide Area Network (WAN). The shipboard LAN consists of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 servers and workstations over fiber based 10/100 Ethernet. The WAN uses the Internet Protocol (IP) suite of protocols and consists of a T1 backbone connecting major sites. Ata minimum, the solution must provide arbitration between simultaneous voice and data requests using the INMARSAT-B system and preferably allow automated simultaneous voice and data traffic. The solution must allow for both ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship traffic flow (an underway WAN link) and provide some form of encryption for all voice/data leaving the ship over INMARSAT-B. The INMARSAT path can be either proprietary or paid for by the Government. The solution must be Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant. When inport, at other than their homeports, the ships presently use High-Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) using 3COM SuperStackII NETBuilder Secure Internet/Intranet routers to tunnel back through the WAN to their homeports. The underway solution must be compatible with the normal inport scenario allowing seamless transition from an inport to underway scenario. All interested vendors should provide detailed information such as equipment identification and supporting literature along with a cost per minute analysis if a proprietary INMARSAT path is used. This announcement is not in any way a request for proposals nor does the Government intend to pay for any information submitted in response to this notice. Address all responses to the Technical POC referenced in line #11 of this notice. Posted 08/04/99 (W-SN363025). (0216)

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