Effective Deployment of LVC-TE on Wide Area Networks
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The Marine Corps' Live, Virtual and Constructive Training Environment (LVC-TE) connects training systems at geographically separate bases to enable collective and battle staff training. The long-haul circuits that provide the connections are not dedicated to training exercises but are shared and simultaneously carry other network traffic for the Marine Corps. Excess latency and jitter injected into training exercises from these circuits can invalidate results and bias the results of the exercise for one side.
A major existing deterrent to the planning of large-scale exercises is the inability to accurately estimate the load that will be placed by a local, regional, or country-wide training exercise on the underlying communication networks. This significantly prolongs the planning and approval processes.