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EUROCONTROL lays foundations for Single European Sky with IP-based backbone
EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, has appointed SITA as network service provider for the Pan European Network Service (PENS). The service will allow air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to exchange operational voice and data communications across a common network for the first time.
Seamless exchange
PENS - a managed IP-based regional communications backbone service - will now enable the 38 ANSPs of EUROCONTROL member states to exchange operational air traffic control voice and data communications in a seamless and integrated manner.
It will provide an alternative to the ad hoc bilateral communications that are largely in place today between ANSPs - resulting in increased service levels and reduced overall costs.
It will serve today's needs for inter-ANSP information exchange as well as those envisioned by SESAR - the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research Programme - under its System Wide Information Management initiative.
This will be a key foundation for the Single European Sky, with its goals of increasing capacity, improving safety, reducing aviation's environmental impact and cutting ATM costs by 50%.
PENS will additionally replace the individual IP network services that have been delivering services to EUROCONTROL's Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU) and European Aeronautical Information Service Database (EAD) centralised applications - delivering further economies of scale.
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