Figure 2-28.—KY-879/P keyboard.
determine interoperability in joint operations
involving single-channel tactical radio equipment.
Equipment planning in the Special Operations
Community is complicated by the wide variety of
equipment used and the highly variable and rapidly
changing nature of the operational settings. Because
most communications requirements for this
community are satisfied by single-channel, full-
duplex radio links, CLIPS was designed primarily to
help plan this type of communications link. Equipment
covered under CLIPS is specifically limited to radios,
modems, crypto devices, input/output data terminals,
and packet controllers normally used to establish these
radio links.
The CLIPS program is designed for use with IBM
PC or compatible computers using MS-DOS. It is
designed to provide solutions to equipment planning
and link configuration problems by considering all the
factors involved and automatically determining the
“best” system to be used by each participant in the
communications link. The CLIPS program in-
corporates the knowledge of experienced com-
munications personnel, equipment specifications,
circuit planning rules, and equipment inventories in a
way that makes communications planning straight-
forward, easy, and objective.
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