Network Services

SECRET IP DATA

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DESCRIPTION


The Secret IP Data service provides point-to-point connectivity to mission partners. It also provides IP-based secret information transfer across DoD for official DoD business applications such as e-mail, web services, and file transfer.  The Secret IP Data service gateway function provides DoD customers with centralized and protected connectivity to federal, Intelligence Community (IC) and allied information at the secret level.

The Secret IP Data service includes IP-based secret information exchange within DoD (DoD intranet) and centralized, gateway external network information exchange (extranet).  The intranet function provides access to a joint, shared DoD environment at the secret classification level for the exchange of information among DoD components.

This service requires customer-provided encryption devices.  For more information, please reference the Secret IP Router Network (SIPRNet) Customer Guide, 10 December 2009.

 

FEATURES


Connectivity Features

  • Classification Segmentation — Joint, DoD-wide enterprise internetworking enables the exchange of secret information.
  • Rate-Limited Access Bandwidth — IP data rate limited to the customer requested access bandwidth up to the maximum supported by the interface.
  • Control and Routing Exchange — Static configuration or dynamic updates using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that are supported for IP routing between the DISN edge and Customer Edge (CE) routers.
  • Dial-Up Access — Remote workstation access to the Secret IP Data service through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), and Secure Telephone Unit or Secure Terminal Equipment (STE).

Information Assurance Protection Features

  • Access Load-Sharing and Diversity — Supports multiple access links to improve service survivability. Options for ordering access circuits include loadsharing (active/active) and active primary with secondary backup (active/standby) for interface, node, or site diversity to meet site Command and Control (C2) survivability requirements.
  • External Network Gateways for Perimeter Protection — Provides protected, centralized interfaces to external networks. The classified federal demilitarized zone (DMZ) and releasable DMZ provide secure connectivity to the IC, and other federal government and allied networks operating at the secret level.

Network Management Features

  • Configurable Aggregate Access Bandwidth — Service access bandwidth will be configurable up to the maximum supported by the access physical interface through the service portal.
  • Configurable Service Class Access Bandwidth — Allocation of the access interface aggregate bandwidth among service classes will be configurable through the service portal.  Ingress traffic policing will enforce the allocation within each service class, and egress traffic policing (in elastic/real-time) or shaping (preferred elastic and elastic classes) will manage bandwidth within each service class based on information priority.  Default service will be best effort (100 percent allocation to the elastic service class) for customers that do not require Class of Service (CoS) enabled service assurance.

 
Emerging Feature

  • Multicast — Multicast facilitates efficient one-to-many information distribution by allowing a host to broadcast packets to a group that is made-up of a subset of the hosts on the network.  Multicast is a bandwidth conserving technology specifically designed to reduce traffic by simultaneously delivering a single stream of information to potentially thousands of customers/hosts.


Service Offering Secret IP Data (formerly known as SIPRNet)
Service Lifecycle Status Maintain & Sustain
Security Classification Up to and including Secret
Value to Our Mission Partners SIPRNet is DoD's largest interoperable command and control data network supporting the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), the Defense Message System (DMS), collaborative planning and numerous other classified warfighter applications.  SIPRNet provides secure, seamless, interoperable, and common user packet switched data communications services to mission partners with access data rates ranging from 56 Kbps to 1.0 Gbps.  Remote dial-up services are available up to 115 Kbps, and services to the Tactical community are available via Integrated Tactical-Strategic Data Network /Standard Tactical Entry Point (ITSDN/STEP) sites.
Service Performance

Service performance is measured, monitored, and reported as defined in the Telecommunications Service Level Agreement, which can be found on the Telecommunications Service Level Agreement page. 

Service Rates Service rate information can be found on the DISA Direct Home page at https://www.disadirect.disa.mil under Inventory and Billing.
Connection Approval There are services that require a connection approval. Information regarding connection approvals can be found at the DISN Connection Process website for unclassified users, and at https://www.disa.smil.mil/connect website for classified users.