6. Conclusion

Largely specific in terms of their architecture and the physical hardening of their components, military on-board telecommunications systems tend to use civilian protocol standards: systematically for layers 1 to 4 of systems without real-time constraints, and sometimes for high layers (messaging). Only "combat systems" remain specific to date, even if media such as ATM would a priori be suitable for conveying the data associated with these systems. Expected developments mainly concern increasing the bandwidth of ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore segments (HF and SHF channels) to ensure high-performance end-to-end communications (the corollary being the standardization of ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore multimedia links), and the development of inter-ship cooperation within a naval force.ship cooperation within a naval force (the CEC (Cooperative Engagement Capability) concept), whereby the...