Park Air Systems

Presentation to
ICAO
workshop
Kiev

Martin Viktorin
International Sales Manager

Who Are Park Air Systems ?

400 employees
$120 million turnover
167 countries

Products & Expertise

Product Delivery Map

Product Delivery Map

Who We Supply

Important message
Voice is the one and only 2 way, real-time communication
No digital VCS to VHF/UHF Radio standard
No VCS to VCS integration standard
Communication

Transition to networking
across boundaries and
different ATC centers?

Traditional Solution

Digital

Analogue
4W E&M
Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

4W E&M

4W E&M

4W E&M

VCS

4W E&M

4W E&M

Transport medium

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Why
Digital
End to End

Flexibility

?
Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support

Benefits Digital End to End solution

100% Audio quality No degradation
Nation-wide sharing off all resources
Total management
Communication

Standard E1 connections

E1 utilisation
E1 can be carried by many transport ways
< 29 radio channels on 1 E1
No audio signal compression
Communication

Common availability of E1

Digital End-to-end signalling

Timeslot Structure

Basic Digital System

Multiple access and highly resilient connection

Larger systems can use cross coupling to enable main radios to

be accessed from standby links and vice versa

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Why
Digital
End to End

Flexibility

?
Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support

NATS (UK)
Project
coverage

UK Network
Digital End-to-End Network
4 autonomous switching centres, 32 radio sites
382 positions, 506 radio channels, over 2000 telephone
lines/channels

136 E1 Links
Redundant links from
centre sites to radio sites
Inter-VCCS links

Centralised Services
Management facility

UK Network

Flexibility
All resources are available across the network
Human resources
- Can sit anywhere in the UK and control any sector
- Increased human resource planning flexibility
- Can handle critical situations

ATC resources
- Any Role, frequency and telephone is available at any CWP
- Easy to make upgrades and servicing due to the
totally flexible back-up possibilities

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Why
Digital
End to End

Flexibility

?
Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support

Central Management
One central site controls all resources
Maintenance view
- Showing status of all equipment
- Disconnecting equipment from service
- Masking reports from equipment during maintenance

ATC service view

- Indicating the effect failures have on ATC service
- Possibility to take a service out of use including equipment

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Why
Digital
End to End

Flexibility

?
Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support

Total Cost Of Ownership

wire E&M
Analogue lines

Mbit E1
Digital line

Total Cost Of Ownership

Total cost per year,
,000s
40

30

20

10

0
Analogue (8 lines)

Digital (1 line with < 30ch)

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Why
Digital
End to End

Flexibility

?
Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support

Digital End-to-end

VCCS Component

GAREX 220 VCCS Features

Fully digital PCM technology

Non-blocking
High quality Touch Screen Display
Automatic recognition of Position Instruments
60 minutes Short time recording in each CWP
DGD/MARC Advanced Diagnostic tool with
graphical user interface combining the VCCS and
radios
Hot-swapping of faulty modules

Digital End-to-end

Radio Component

PAE T6 The worlds most advanced ATC radio

Software defined Multimode Digital Radio
Supports all current and expected modes of operation
All modulation forms are generated digitally in the DSP
Technology leader VDL-2 and VDL-3 fully implemented

Digital End-to-end

Radio Component

PAE T6 Technology leadership

Advanced software radio architecture supports
AM Voice operation at 8.33 and 25 kHz channel spacing
ICAO VHF Digital Link (VDL) Modes 2 and 3
Digital speech input
Instant mode selection under software control
T6 range includes VHF and UHF
VHF and UHF share identical software
architecture
80% common hardware platform

E1 - router

E1-RIC

Unique identity

Up to eight
radios

Two inputs
Two outputs

Four Alarm inputs

Four Relay outputs

E1-RIC with legacy radios transition from old to modern

Legacy radios
(4W E&M)
Legacy
VCS
VCS 1
E1

VCS 2

Protocol
Converter
Units

PAE T6 radios
(E1)

E1

More
E1-RICs

Dubai and Jebel Ali TWR/APP

CANAC Brussels

IATCC
Prague

Performance

Ability To
Deliver

Flexibility
Park Air
Systems

Total Cost Of
Ownership

Support