Tenix: Network Design and Analysis for Robust and Efficient Maritime Military Communications

The Australian Department of Defence is modernising their Maritime Communications Information Management Architecture.

The problem

The modernisation of maritime military communications is an extremely complex task, not only because of the range of technologies involved, but also because of the ever-increasing number of applications that such networks need to support. Tenix, in preparing a tender for the project, needed to rapidly and accurately analyse proposed architectures across a wide range of usage and failure scenarios critical to the design of a robust and efficient network.

The solution

We assisted Tenix by analysing proposed architectures, network configurations and prioritisation of application traffic. By working together, potential bottlenecks and critical failure scenarios were identified. This analysis enabled us to suggest a more robust, efficient traffic routing model. This in turn enabled Tenix to enhance their proposed solution and produce increasingly more effective network designs.

We then incorporated our analysis process in software, enabling Tenix to undertake similar analyses as the proposed network architecture evolved further and the range of applications to be included in the analysis expanded.

The results of our research assisted Tenix in proposing a thoroughly analysed, robust and efficient maritime military communications network architecture.