MIL-STD-188-lllA
FOREWORD
1.
This military standard is approved and mandatory for use by all
Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense (DoD) in accordance
with DoD Directive 4640.11, dated 21 December 1987.
2.
Beneficial comments (recommendations,
additions, deletions) and any
pertinent data which may be of use in improving this document should be
addressed to:
Commander, U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Conmand,
ATTN :
ASB-SET-T, Fort Huachuca, Arizona 85613-5300 by using the
self-addressed Standardization Document Improvement Proposal
(DD Form 1426) appearing at the end of this document, or by letter.
3.
Originally, Military Standard 188 (MIL-STD-188) covered technical
standards for tactical and long-haul connnunications, but later evolved
through revisions (MIL-STD-188A, MIL-STD-188B) into a document applicable to
tactical connnunications only (MIL-STD-188C).
4.
The Defense Con@nilcations Agency (DCA) published DCA Circulars
(DCACS) promulgating standards and engineering criteria applicable to the
long-haul Defense Communications System (DCS) and to the technical support of
the National Military Command System (NMCS).
5. As a result of a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) action, standards for
all military communications are now being published in a MIL-STD-188 series
of documents.
The MIL-STD-188 series is subdivided into a MIL-STD-188-100
series covering common standards for tactical and long-haul communications, a
MIL-STD-188-200 series covering stan@rds for tactical communications only,
and a MIL-STD-188-300 series co~ering standards for long-haul conununications
only. Emphasis is being placed on developing common standards for tactical
and long-haul communications published in the MIL-STD-188-1OO series.
6. This document contains technical standards and design objectives
(DOS) for long-haul and tactical digital fiber optic communications systems.
The terms “system standard” and “design objective (DO)” are defined in ‘
FED-STD-1037.
In this document, the word
“shall” identifies mandatory system
standards.
The word “should” identifies DOS which are desirable but not
mandatory.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The material in appendix C is reproduced with permission from American
National Standard for Telecommunications --Digital Hierarchy--Optical
Interface Specifications: Single-mode,
ANSI TI .106-1988, copyright 1988 by
the American National Standards Institute.
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