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MPS 115 (INFRASTRUCTURAL)
MULTIPROTOCOL
SWITCHING/ROUTING FAMILY
MPS SERIES
GENERAL
The MPS Series includes a complete range of products
designed for providing broadband switching ser vices to
suppor t professional or militar y networks, in both
tactical and infrastructure environments.
The data traffic increasing demand for Real Time
Data/Command and Control applications, in connection
with the need of having security features in the networks
set new requirements for switching systems.
The MPS Series is the answer to such a new
multi-protocol networks scenario harmonizing together
ISDN, IP/LAN, Combat Net Radio (CNR) and legacy
STANAG/EUROCOM militar y systems.
They provide shared transpor t ser vices on narrow and
wide band bearers, of either good or poor quality as for
BER and propagation delays. Networking capabilities are
suited for deployable and fixed networks, with different
routing schemes (flood search or deterministic) and
with full suppor t of militar y user ser vices (priority,
pre-emption, security, etc).
The MPS Series suppor ts embedded VoIP Call Manager
and Gateway features according to SIPv2 protocol.
> Militar y & Space
The MPS series is provided with an Ad Hoc Routing,
specifically designed for mobile applications.
The dynamic bandwidth allocation features, the deliver y
of end to end QoS to the different data and voice
applications, the rugged design, the availability of
platform versions and the full control capabilities
complete the profile of this family of products.
The MPS series switches can be either introduced
seamlessly in legacy systems or be deployed in any new
scenario to ser ve Professional or Armed Forces network
requirements.
MAIN FEATURES
• Suitable for tactical, infrastructure and platform
applications
• Standard, compact or vehicular version available
• 2.5 or 5 Gbps non blocking switching matrix
• Large number of trunking, IP, ISDN, telephone and
legacy inter faces
• STANAG 4206/4578 suppor t
• Militar y features provided (priority, pre-emption,
security, self-affiliation, digital conference, non secure
warning tone, etc)
• Trunk Inter face hardening to operate with high BER
• Encr yption devices criteria on inter faces
• Power ful Traffic Management and Call Admission
Control

MPS 145 (INFRASTRUCTURAL)
• IP routing functions (BGP4, OSPFv2, VRRP, etc.)
• Ensured End to End QoS and Guaranteed Bandwidth
• Embedded VoIP Gateway and Call Manager (SIP v2 protocol)
• On per call basis trunk allocation for incoming traffic
• Silence suppression, echo canceling and narrowband
voice coding
• IP Secure Vir tual Private Networks (SVPN) and
Firewalling suppor t
• Multi-Level Secure equipment
• Common Criteria EAL4+ Cer tification
• Local control or via Network Management System
(NMS)
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
VAST RANGE OF INTERFACES
MPS Cards can be mainly divided in:
• Trunking Cards (2, 8, 34, 45, 100, 155, 622 Mbps)
• IP Cards (Ethernet)
• Circuit Switched Cards (FXS, E&M, ISDN BRI, E1/T1,
Eurocom/STANAG, E3 and Serial up to 52 Mbps)
SATELLITE/RADIO RELAY TRUNKING CARD (TC)
MPS are provided with a peculiar high rate Trunking Card
able to operate with several bit rates from 32 Kbps to 34
Mbps. This card is par ticularly suitable to be used on
radio relay links characterised by high BER because it
has integrated For ward Error Correction (FEC)
capabilities that can be enabled on demand.
The card can be efficiently used on satellite links,
considering that the used signalling protocol does not
suffer any problems with ver y high delays (several
hundred of milliseconds) and it can be directly connected
to satellite modems.
Having such capability, MPS are par ticularly suitable for
the extension of the infrastructure network features into
the remote sites (reachback application). The card is
also available with embedded bulk encr yption features
for expor t applications.
IP CARDS (IPCS)
MPS supports an Ethernet 100BASE-TX interface with
integrated IP routing that can be used for IP users access.
CIRCUIT SWITCHED CARDS (CSCS)
Circuit Switched Cards (CSCs) include:
• Eurocom/STANAG CSC
• ISDN CSC
• Telephone CSCs
The Eurocom/STANAG CSC is a 256 Kbps÷2 Mbps
inter face that allows connecting digital switches
compliant with Eurocom and STANAG 4206 Standards.
The ISDN CSC is a 1.544 or 2 Mbps inter face.
MPS 145 (TACTICAL)
The inter face can be set as unstructured, for transparent
transit, or as structured, (respectively ISDN 23B+D or
ISDN 30B+D). The unit allows inter facing digital
equipment compliant to ETSI EURO-ISDN, Q.Sig and
STANAG 4578 standards.
Both for Eurocom and ISDN CSCs, MPS process the
incoming signalling, allocating bandwidth for the used
slots only in the trunk network.
The Telephone CSCs are ISDN BRI (2B+D) and analogue
FXS/E&M inter faces.
VOIP SERVICES

MPS suppor ts SIP Gateway functions towards all the

Circuit Switched Cards. MPS has an embedded SIP Call
Manager able to suppor t Militar y Ser vices.

IP ROUTING ENGINE

MPS IP Routing Engine suppor ts:

• Hardware-based IP packets for warding
• VLAN management
• IGMPv2 protocol for IP multicast
• OSPFv2, BGP4 protocols for standard interoperability
towards external IP networks
• VRRP protocol for router redundancy using double
access architectures
• PPP protocol termination over serial lines
• Scalable, End to End QoS
MPS 115 (TACTICAL)

IP SECURITY AND FIREWALLING

and narrowband voice coding techniques such as G.726
MPS allows managing VPN functions via IPSec tunneling (ADPCM 16Kbps or 32Kbps), G.729 (CELP 6.4 or
with DES, TDES and AES encr yption to provide privacy, 8Kbps), (CELP 5.3 or 6.3 Kbps) with all the relevant
integrity and authentication of data during the cross of transcodings.

the network. MPS also integrates a firewall suppor ting

stateful inspection, access policies, application content
filtering, NAT and protection from internal and external
attacks.
EFFICIENT VOICE MANAGEMENT
MPS is able to provide efficient management of packet
voice traffic using silence suppression and echo
cancellation techniques. MPS suppor ts PCM, CVSD
“AD HOC” ROUTING
MPS have a ver y power ful and flexible “Ad Hoc” routing
based on Advanced Flood Search algorithm operating on
all the traffic types (voice/data and IP).
Such routing has been specifically developed for tactical
networks and allows suppor t users mobility, network
reconfiguration/high sur vivability.
MPS “Ad Hoc” routing allows managing Priority/Pre-emption
and Security.

BROADBAND TRAFFIC AGGREGATION

 SATELLITE REMOTE NETWORK CONNECTION

KEY APPLICATIONS SATELLITE REMOTE NETWORK CONNECTION

BROADBAND TRAFFIC AGGREGATION MPS allow internetworking between Remote and

Infrastructure Networks also by means of satellite links.
MPS are able to provide traffic aggregation for several In this scenario, known as “Reachback”, users of the
different traffic types present at the edge of the network
Remote Network, deployed in an operational site, can
taking into consideration that they are provided with
have access to the Infrastructure Network. By linking
many types of access inter faces (FXS, ISDN BRI, ISDN
Remote Network and Infrastructure Network Infrastructure
E1/T1, E3, Ethernet, Serial up to 52 Mbps) and
all the specific network features are maintained.
fur thermore different priority levels can be applied to the
different input traffic types.
RADIO RELAY NETWORKS
In case of failure on a backbone link it is possible to
have an automatic rerouting of the input traffic flows
using pre-emption mechanisms to ensure that the MPS can be used to implement the switching component

available resources will be allocated to the high priority in Radio Relay Networks, in which equipment are installed

traffic flows. in shelters or vehicles for tactical/mobile operations.

RADIO RELAY NETWORKS

 TACTICAL IP NETWORKS

The shelters are typically interconnected with radio TACTICAL IP NETWORKS

relays with a limited transmission capacity on poorly
engineered links, with consequent high Bit Error Rate
With its ver y power ful IP features, MPS is par ticularly
(BER); in the Local Area, when the distance between
suitable to bring IP ser vices in the tactical field.
shelters is limited, fibre optic links can be used.
During operations shelters can be moved due to new It suppor ts VoIP Gateway features towards standard
operational requirements and also the users can move and militar y Circuit Switched Inter faces including Stanag
inside of the network, affiliating from time to time to the 4206/4578.
closer switching node. MPS are par ticularly suitable to
The VoIP suppor t seamlessly allows a power ful
operate in harsh Scenarios considering they can operate
CTI Integration. OSPFv2 and BGP4 routing protocols
on narrowband links and with 10-3 BER, and they sup-
por t an “Ad Hoc” routing algorithm (based on flood availability allows standard interoperability towards
search). IP networks of different Armed Forces.
BATTLEFIELD DIGITALISATION AND MPS165
The emerging Network Enabling Capabilities (NEC) and
Network Centric War fare (NCW) doctrines foresee the
extension of broadband ser vices to several kinds of
militar y vehicles (tracked and wheeled) and mobile
platforms.
To this aim, Selex Communications has enriched the
MPS Family with a vehicular version, called MPS165,
designed to suppor t the tough shock/vibrations
conditions present on board of the vehicles.
MPS165 can be used as a switch to support intra-vehicle
communications, interfacing the on board Intercom system
and providing voice/data access to HF/VHF radios.
When inter facing VHF radios, MPS165 provides a packet
data ser vice according to MIL-STD-188-220 data link
protocol.
MPS165 also allows establishing 155 Mbps fiber optic
links towards other vehicles.
MPS165 maintains all the main features of the MPS
Family such as flood search routing algorithm, IP routing
ser vices, full suppor t of militar y user ser vices (priority,
pre-emption, connection security, etc), dynamic band
allocation features, deliver y of guaranteed QoS to the
different data and voice applications.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS MPS115/MPS145

Switching capacity: 2.5 Gbps (MPS145) or 5 Gbps (MPS115)

Available slots: 6 slots (MPS145) or 14 slots (MPS115)
Priority: 5 configurable priority levels
Security: 6 configurable security levels;
access controls and checks on the security characteristics of connections

INTERFACES
Trunking Cards (TC) 8-por ts 2 Mbps G.703
4-por ts 155 Mbps optical STM-1/OC-3c
1-por t 622 Mbps optical STM-4/OC-12c
With Hardening 3-por ts individually configurable as:
• 256, 512 Kbps, 1, 2 Mbps Eurocom “A”
• 32, 38.4, 64, 76.8, 128, 153.6, 256, 512 Kbps, 1, 2 Mbps V.11, V.35;
also V.28 up to 153.6 Kbps
• 2/8/34 Mbps G.703
4-por ts 155 Mbps optical STM-1/OC-3c
4-por ts 155 Mbps electrical G.703 STM-1/ OC-3c
IP Cards (IPC) 8-por ts Ethernet 100BASE-TX (IP routing and PPP termination)
8-por ts Ethernet 100BASE-TX (IP routing, VPN and Firewall functions)

Circuit Switched Cards (CSC)

MULTI-CHANNEL 1-por t 34 Mbps Structured ITU-T G.703, G.751
16-por ts 1.544 or 2Mbps ITU-T G.703, G.704 Unstructured (8 por ts also with ISDN
signalling)
4-por ts 1.544 or 2Mbps ITU-T G.703, G.704 Unstructured or with ISDN signalling
SINGLE-CHANNEL 16-por ts ITU-T I.430 ISDN S0 (2B+D)
16-por ts Analogue FXS (2 wires)
8-por ts Analogue E&M (6 wires)
DATA 1÷8 por ts up to 52 Mbps Serial (V.11, V.28, V.35, G.703, EIA-RS530, EIA-RS530A, HSSI)
8 por ts Serial 64Kbps G.703

MILITARY 4-por ts from 256 Kbps up to 2Mbps EUROCOM D/1, Unstructured or with
EUROCOM Trunk signalling or 256/512 Kbps with STANAG 4206 Gateway signalling
TIMING Internal clock (stability ± 5x10E-6 per year)
External clock
Received clock from incoming link timing
INTEROPERABILITY ATM switches and terminals
ISDN switches and terminals
Eurocom/STANAG networks and switches
IP networks and terminals
Analogue PTT networks and PBXs
MANAGEMENT Auto-diagnostics:
• Power-on self-test
• General Alarm
Local Control:
• RS232 asynchronous serial line, ASCII protocol
• Ethernet 10 Base T
Remote Control:
• Ethernet 10 Base T, SNMP v.3 protocol
POWER SUPPLY AC/DC with no break automatic changeover
Mains
• Voltage: 110/220 VAC nom., 50/60 Hz
Consumption:
• Max. 330 VA (MPS115)
• Max. 240 VA (MPS145)
Battery
• Voltage: 24/48 VDC nom.
Consumption:
• Max. 290 W (MPS115)
• Max. 140 W (MPS145)
PHYSICAL MPS115
• Size: 263 x 434 x 444 mm. (H x W x D)
• Weight: 40 KG
MPS145
• Size: 133 x 449 x 417 mm. (H x W x D)
• Weight: 30 KG
ENVIRONMENTAL According to MIL-STD-810
Temperature: -20oC +55oC operating
Humidity: 95% non condensing
EMI/EMC According to MIL-STD-461D (Militar y)
According to ETS 300 386 (Infrastructure)
INSTALLATION 19" racks
Fixed, shelter, platform systems, field use.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS MPS165

INTERFACES

Trunking Cards (TC) 2-por ts 155 Mbps optical STM-1/OC-3c

With Hardening 1-por t individually configurable as:
32, 38.4, 64, 76.8, 128, 153.6, 256, 512 Kbps, 1, 2 Mbps V.11, V.35;
also V.28 up to 153.6 Kbps. Alternatively this por t can be configured as an
access Serial por t (CSC) up to 2 Mbps (V.11, V.28, V.35, EIA-RS449,
EIA-RS530)
IP Cards (IPC) 6-por ts Ethernet 100BASE-TX and 1-por t Ethernet 100BASE-FX (IP routing functions)
Circuit Switched Cards (CSC) 2-por ts MIL-STD-188-114 towards VHF radios for data applications according
to MIL-STD-188-220 protocol
8-por ts Analogue E&M (6 wires)
2-por ts STANAG5066
1-por t configurable as:
2 Mbps G.703, G.704 ISDN PRI or 256 Kbps÷2Mbps EUROCOM D/1
(Unstructured or with EUROCOM Trunk signalling)

MANAGEMENT
Local Control: V.10/V.24 asynchronous serial line, ASCII protocol
Ethernet 10 Base T
Remote Control: Ethernet 10 Base T
,POWER SUPPLY
Batter y Voltage: 24 VDC nom.
Consumption: Max. 70 W

PHYSICAL Size: 120x 270 x 330 mm. (H x W x D)

Weight: 20 KG

ENVIRONMENTAL According to MIL-STD-810 E

Temperature: -40oC +55oC operating
Humidity: 95% non condensing

EMI/EMC According to MIL-STD-461E

INSTALLATION Wheeled or tracked vehicles

Fixed.

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