Rebirth of the 1553 Databus

by John Keller Military & Aerospace Electronics, February 2006 The MIL-STD-1553 databus has been a reliable constant in a quickly changing landscape of military technology. Its proponents praise the ageing databus as one of the most reliable networks ever created. At the same time, however, the 1553's limited throughput-just 1 megabit per second-is widely seen as an information-flow bottleneck in an increasingly data-hungry world. Read more