Romanian Air Navigation Service Provider equips Emergency Area Control Center with latest Rohde & Schwarz voice communications system

Bucharest/Munich (ots) - The R&S VCS-4G voice communications
system has successfully passed the final site acceptance tests for
the ROMATSA Emergency Area Control Center, which covers the complete
Romanian airspace.

Romanian Air Navigation Service Provider ROMATSA equipped its
emergency area control center (ACC) with the IP-based voice
communication system R&S VCS-4G from Rohde & Schwarz. The R&S VCS-4G
system was deployed at the end of 2012. It provides air-to-ground and
ground-to-ground communication services that are designed to take
over if both the main and standby VCSs of ROMATSA ACC in Bucharest
fail. For redundancy purposes, system components of the emergency
system are distributed over several locations in and around
Bucharest.

ROMATSA staff at the emergency ACC now communicate completely
independently of the main and standby VCSs with access to VoIP radios
across the nation and to all national control towers. Ground-
to-ground communication with neighboring Air Navigation Service
Providers (ANSPs) is assured by using MFC-R2 lines. Communication
between the emergency systems and the radio/telephony resources of
ROMATSA will be made using the ROMATSA's IP network infrastructure.
System integration was performed by Rohde & Schwarz Topex SA.

Voice over IP (VoIP) systems conforming to EUROCAE ED-137
specifications are the up-and-coming communications technology for
ATC, replacing obsolete TDM-based systems. The fully IP-based R&S
VCS-4G voice communications system adheres to this standard. Rohde &
Schwarz added the R&S VCS-4G state-of-the-art solution to its ATC
portfolio in the spring of 2011. The R&S VCS-4G features a fully
redundant design with many interfaces to external systems, such as a
voice recording system and telephone lines. Due to its unique
architecture, the system is scalable and can easily be expanded
without replacing existing equipment. R&S VCS-4G already implements
Next-Generation ATC requirements such as asset sharing, facility
consolidation, geographical distribution and virtual center, all of
which support the efficiency and safety objectives of global
aviation.

Contact:
Catalin Burdujan
Technical Sales Manager
Phone: +40 21 408 39 14,
E-mail: catalin.burdujan@rohde-schwarz.com
www.topex.rohde-schwarz.com