COMSOFT Latest News http://www.comsoft.de/ Latest News from COMSOFT en COMSOFT Latest News http://www.comsoft.de/ http://www.comsoft.de/ Latest News from COMSOFT TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 16 May 2013 15:21:00 +0200 CAUG/6: Sixth annual Aeronautical User Group bigger than ever http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=166&cHash=1af200ee4267615d9dfe1167a3b79b16 COMSOFT’s customers from around the world again gathered to address the operational and... KARLSRUHE/GERMANY, May 2013 – Over 43 members turned out to this year’s Aeronautical User Group in order to share ideas, latest developments and lessons learned. 
The sixth CAUG meeting, yet again, gave its worldwide members a platform to explore and discuss projects for the future with Aeronautical Message Handling Systems (AMHS) and Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) top of the agenda.
COMSOFT Managing Director, Manfred Schmid, noted in his opening speech that over 90 COMSOFT AIDA-NG systems are now in operation in 52 countries in all ICAO regions, which he stated was:  “A great achievement that speaks for itself and, of course, for AIDA-NG.”
Customers’ willingness to present examples of COMSOFT product installations and their AIM Data management, along with issues and solutions, was a most valuable asset to the conference, as a record number volunteered to share their experiences. 
Alain El Baz, from skyguide Switzerland, expressed his high satisfaction with the reliability of their message handling solution from COMSOFT and Erick Chavunduka from the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) spoke of their AFTN switch, commissioned in 1997, followed by their implementation of AMHS in 2010, making them one of the first AMHS capable countries in Africa. 
Praise was given to the 16 successful AMHS connections, completed by COMSOFT’s AIDA-NG around the world, however, a side note highlighted that this figure should be higher and the hesitation in Europe was questioned.
The ability of AMHS to transfer complex data structures, like digital NOTAMS, was conveyed at the previous CAUG/5 and Mr. Schmid urged customers to remember this, stating: “The abilities AMHS posses are extremely important for the future of transmissions and will, in the not too distant future, be one of the important pillars of aeronautical data transmission.” He asserted that AMHS must be utilised, given that this advanced technology is now available. 
Katis Ketheeswaran from NATS UK was able to pick up the topic and speak of the UK’s transition of their interregional AMHS connections to North America and the Asia Pacific region.  He was also able to advise other CAUG members about their transition approach and share valuable lessons learned.
Another focus was on Aeronautical Data Quality (ADQ) and the mandate of the European Commission, set to keep Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) as well as the industry on their toes. COMSOFT proved that their AIM solution CADAS is fully in line with the latest ADQ requirements, based on the AIXM 5.1 standard. It was no surprise then that the ADQ workshop proved popular for sharing ideas and possible solutions.
Another brand new topic was the European Directory Service (EDS) which has been the result of an operational concept study supplied to EUROCONTROL and carried out by COMSOFT. The validation process will now start and hopefully many volunteers will participate. 
It must also be said that a crucial note about internet security was raised due to the growing trend of connecting aeronautical systems to the public internet. This gained further audience interest during the discussions about COMSOFT’s internet security technology, which already boasts a number of satisfied customers.
The conference came to a close another success, with customer feedback highlighting the continued benefit that CAUG delivers year on year, and customers’ enthusiasm at returning in order to report on further progress. 
COMSOFT GmbH was established in 1979 and has been active in the ATC domain for over 20 years. The company enjoys a worldwide reputation in this market.

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]]> AMHS-PR AIM-PR Thu, 16 May 2013 15:21:00 +0200 New PROFINET IO PC Card from COMSOFT http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=162&cHash=1517bef95ea2eb0465208a7d30130d71 New generation of PROFINET IO Cards – high performance, flexible and practical ICP Press Releases Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:26:00 +0100 Airports Authority of India equip new sites with Next Generation Systems http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=161&cHash=240014ac33f8f02c0cf4dd4cd4aa6de5 COMSOFT have been commissioned to install a further 14 Quadrant Sensor ADS-B ground stations for... The long-range ADS-B technology builds a complete air situation picture from airport surface to beyond 250 Nautical Miles, and is an ideal surveillance solution for a country like India where very long distances have to be covered and regions with extremely high altitudes present a special challenge.
Fourteen National and International airports across India, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are already using the accurate and forward thinking air surveillance technology, following the completion of site acceptance testing in October 2012.  COMSOFT’s dual-redundant Quadrant Sensors enhance the accurate and safe surveillance broadcast in all fundamental directions of the South-Asian country to an automated ATM system. Quadrant is the centerpiece of COMSOFT’s air surveillance product family, receiving and processing 1090MHz messages for either ADS-B or multilateration use, in accordance with latest international ADS-B standards. The worldwide transportation community has clearly recognised ADS-B and multilateration as the surveillance technologies with the greatest potential, given the reliability and ease of installation, combined with high performance at low operation and investment costs.
COMSOFT GmbH was established in 1979 and has been active in the ATC domain for over 20 years. The company enjoys a worldwide reputation in this market.

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COMSOFT’s ADS-B groundstation has an extraordinary range, unmatched in industry, and comes with a Control and Monitoring System (QCMS) ensuring permanent performance supervision during operation and offering remote setting of all system parameters. The system does not need any regular maintenance service, ideal preconditions for an area with more than 1000 coral islands spread over a surface of 90,000 square kilometres, making the Republic of Maldives one of the world's most geographically dispersed nations.

The Maldivians’ unwavering determination led to impressive achievements since the first aircraft landed on Hulhule Island in October 1960. Introduction of the latest ADS-B technology is another important milestone in the ANSP’s history.

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]]> ATMA-PR Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:22:00 +0100 GCAA Successful with Next Step towards WAM http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=158&cHash=59182b9b5f81a270530ce040e182c1c8 United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has taken a big step forward on their... ABU DHABI /UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, March 2013 – COMSOFT has completed the project to upgrade GCAA’s ATM Surveillance Tracker to the next generation: ARTAS 8. The market leading ARTAS tracker forms the surveillance data processing core of GCAA’s advanced PRISMA ATM system at the Sheikh Zayed Centre in Abu Dhabi. The ARTAS 8 platform had been installed in the GCAA Resarch and Dataset lab back in 2010. As the system has proven extremely reliable in operation, GCAA purchased three additional units:  One ARTAS system went into operation in the main ACC, a second one deliveres surveillance service in the EACC and another unit is being used by their training department for simulation purposes.
The outstanding accuracy, performance and reliability of ARTAS set the stage for an exemplary success story throughout Europe as well as in the Emirates. With ARTAS 8, GCAA is now ready to benefit from WAM data in the air situation picture provided to the ATCOs: ARTAS 8 is the enabler for the data fusion of Wide Area Multilateration with classical radar, Mode S and ADS-B, maximizing performance while optimising costs.
Further important new features of ARTAS 8 consist in the enhanced support of ADS-B (now including all DO260, DO260A and DO260B transponders), as well as the simplification of the system design.  The amount of required hardware nodes has been minimised to two nodes while at the same time processing power has been increased considerably.
With the implementation of the ARTAS 8 project, GCAA has set a further shining example: the transition to ARTAS 8 was achieved within the operational PRISMA ATM system without any degradation of Air Traffic Service provision, i.e. GCAA’s heart of surveillance processing was upgraded to the next generation within the live system without any impact on the Air Traffic Controllers’ performance. This could only be achieved by detailed and thorough transition planning and the collaboration with a reliable and experienced industry partner.
By successfully introducing ARTAS 8, GCAA not only reinforces its pioneering position amongst ANSPs, but also lays the foundations to build upon in the future, taking into account the upcoming operational integration of WAM and the ever-increasing demands and challenges for an ANSP playing a central role in the region.

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]]> ARTAS-PR Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:34:00 +0100 Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland all set for AMHS http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=157&cHash=0b1c8e8333c56b127567c8d2fbd13713 COMSOFT provided entire AMHS system within only 45 days to Polish Military Related Products AIDA-NG:  Aeronautical Integrated Data Exchange Agent - Next Generation AIDA-FPL: Aeronautical Integrated Data Exchange Agent - Flight Plan Conv. CADAS: COMSOFT's Aeronautical Data Access System]]> AMHS-PR Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:01:00 +0100 Civil Aviation Agency of the State of Qatar opts for COMSOFT's high quality internet security solutions CISECA http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=153&cHash=42f42d2bb66f29ac32f7548e7d945258 A new cost-effective access to ATC services has been taken into operation by QCAA know-how in aeronautical messaging and information services as well as internet and network security solutions. Within the framework of this project, COMSOFT has delivered high quality network and firewall components as well as email and web access solutions of its Internet Security Appliance product portfolio, all of which have been seamlessly integrated into the existing infrastructure. In addition to the use of the internet access for the exchange of AFTN and AMHS messages via email, the mature system also effects immediate and reliable status reporting of QCAA's operational systems via email and SMS text messages  to the administrators. This solution will also be used for common office and control center communications. The component based CISECA solution (Comsoft Internet SECurity Appliance)  is already well prepared for any future extensions such as the safe access via internet to the AIS briefing services of QCAA.

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CADAS- ATS: CADAS Air Traffic Services ]]> AMHS-PR Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:02:00 +0100 COMSOFT supplies highly versatile Flight Plan Converter to ENNA http://www.comsoft.aero/it/press-media-events/press-releases/press-releases/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=154&cHash=763fd41b3271d7fad06f5fd76c2996eb The Algerian ANSP adapts its flight data processing systems to the new ICAO flight plan format In addition to the conversion of standard flight plans from the new to the old ICAO format and vice versa, the converter also transforms information encoded in Online-Data Interchange (OLDI) messages exchanged between Algiers and the adjacent ATC centers. Another key feature of AIDA-FPL consists in the intelligent handling of the new "Date of Flight" feature. The specification of the Date of Flight (DOF) in the new format allows flight plans to be filed up to five days in advance.
Without its proper conversion this would lead to a fundamental misunderstanding of the DOF and make the flight plan useless. If the DOF is set for any time later than one day in the future, AIDA-FPL stores the related flight plan data temporarily and releases it for processing 24 hours before the actual departure time at the earliest. AIDA-FPL has been integrated in many installations with Flight Data Processing Systems of various manufacturers and has proven its versatility in adapting to the peculiarities of these end systems.

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