I started working as a systems engineer at Military Communications System Engineering Department of ASELSAN Electronics Industries Inc., in July 2003. In the last quarter of 2006, I became a senior system engineer and worked in this position till July 2007.
ASELSAN is the leading multi-product electronics company of Turkey that designs, develops and manufactures modern electronic systems for military and professional use.
I got my CCNA certificate in 2007.
Sample projects that I worked on:
Standardization:
ASELSAN is a sub-contractor in TACOMS Post-2000 project. TACOMS Post-2000 aims to achieve interoperability within a tactical communications network consisting of elements from different nations. He assisted a senior engineer in forming of two work packages in the standardization part of the project:
o WP I: Definition of protocols for interconnection of packet radio networks on the interoperability points.
o WP II: STANAG Validation Scenario Specifications and Requirements Document, explaining how the OPNET Network Model suite will be used for the System Level Validation Simulations.
He participated in two international meetings held in TAC ONE (main contractor of the project) premises in Colombes, Paris and made presentations about the work done.
Prototyping & Testing:
He also took part in ASELSAN team participating in Prototyping and Testing Part of TACOMS project held in Netherlands and Germany (Combined Endeavour). He worked primarily on router (Cisco 36XX, 37XX, 38XX, 26XX) configurations, network design and in:
o Implementation of services like VoIP, video, voice, netmeeting, ftp and http between Turkish Tactical Communications System (both ISDN&IP) and other national tactical systems.
o Implementation and testing of end-to-end quality of service (DiffServ) between distinct networks while running applications.
o Implementation of IPSec and forming a VPN between Turkish and Canadian tactical systems across Internet using GRE tunnel structure.
He was involved in the development process and testing of TASMUS. TASMUS is the nationally developed tactical communications system for Turkish Army. He worked in IP part and configuration of router/switches especially.
He participated in “Secure Voice over IP Phone” design project of ASELSAN. Prepared system requirements documents, call scenarios documents, and signalization documents. Particularly worked on:
o H.323/SIP call flow scenarios,
o H.225, H.245, SDP signaling and tailoring of these protocols for specific needs of Turkish System.
o H.323 gatekeeper/SIP servers properties & requirements
o H.323/H.320 Gateway properties & requirements
o SCIP (FNBDT) algorithm and SCIP over IP.
o Investigation of commercial IP phone behaviors in different network traffic and call situations by using routers, switches, Cisco Call Managers (CCM 4.0) and traffic analyzers.
M. Ilhan Akbas participated in the preparation of contracts and specifications to be used between ASELSAN and Turkish Armed Forces.
He also participated in testing, analysis and purchase of commercial products (network analyzers, traffic generators, IP phones, Cisco Call Managers, video conference units, FSO devices, Ethernet radios) in Military Communications System Engineering Department of ASELSAN.
Last updated: March 10, 2009