Special Features:

Electrostatic discharge sensitive; dwg name: rapid message processor; nuclear hardened item

Properties:

Serves as the gateway between the communications subsystem and the mission control and real time local area network. One interface will be used for transmission and reception of messages traffic between the misson control area network and the message distribution processor. The other interface will be used to relay the digitized voice between the real time local area nework and the commanders tactical terminal voice circuits, the voice order wire and back up voice wire to the aircraft pilots or the single channel ground and airborne radio system radio. The local area network interface is the system fiber distributed data interface standards.