Romanian Air Navigation Service Provider equips Emergency Area Control Center with latest voice communications system R&S VCS-4G

Romanian Air Navigation Service Provider equips Emergency Area Control Center with latest voice communications system R&S VCS-4G Bucharest/Munich, Mar 19, 2013 - 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-4Gfeatures 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.

Rohde & SchwarzRohde & Schwarz is an independent group of companies specializing in electronics. It is a leading supplier of solutions in the fields of test and measurement, broadcasting, radiomonitoring and radiolocation as well as secure communications. Established almost 80 years ago, Rohde & Schwarz has a global presence and a dedicated service network in over 70 countries. It has approx.8700 employees and achieved a net revenue of 1.8 billion(USD 2.3 billion)in fiscal year 2011/2012 (July 2011 to June 2012). Company headquarters are in Munich, Germany.

R&S is a registered trademark of Rohde&SchwarzGmbH&Co.KG

Rohde & Schwarz Topex SA

Rohde & Schwarz Topex SA, a subsidiary of Rohde&Schwarz, is an innovative, fast growing European manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and systems, providing a wide range of mission critical applications. The company has over 20 years of experience in research, development, manufacturing and deployment of communication systems for both civil and military environments. Rohde&Schwarz Topex's expertise includes besides ATC/AD voice communications systems a wide variety of next generation network solutions (NGN), ATM network infrastructure media gateways for both VoIP and TDM based systems, signalling gateways, broadband mobile routers and fixed-mobile terminals.

Contact:

Catalin Burdujan

Technical Sales Manager

Phone: +40 21 408 39 14,

E-mail: catalin.burdujan@rohde-schwarz.com

www.topex.rohde-schwarz.com

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