Categoria: Europe

LNVL, the Dutch Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), ordered SITTI the design, delivery, installation, and bringing into service of three Last Resort Radio Telephony Systems (LRRTS) to be located at Schiphol-East, Schiphol-Centre and Rotterdam The Hague. This project has been extended to supply an additional LRRTS system for the new POLARIS ACC/APP room, including a simulator for training purposes.

The scope of supply consists of the delivery and installation of Aeronautical Air/Ground Radio Equipment, including all necessary and ancillary hardware and software, not forgetting Monitoring and Control functions for all locations. Control workstations are connected to the national supervision system.

The initial project required SITTI to develop a new type of Controller Working Position, in accordance with the specifications of the system, by taking into consideration the special characteristics set by the customer. The new Polaris LRRTS system will be equipped with 60 of such positions, each capable of being configured for selectively accessing up to 20 radios connected to the system, today via analogue links. Additional 20 positions are envisaged for the simulation system.

The Voice Communication Systems (VCSs) used for this project belong to SITTI MULTIFONO® M800IP® and prove their flexibility in being capable of managing a large number of specially designed Controller Working Positions (CWPs) and analogue radio links. These same systems are natively ready to be seamlessly expanded to include standard ED-137 VOIP radios and recorders.

The extremely high flexibility, resilience, fault-tolerability of SITTI systems, with no single point of failure (SPOF) and 99.9999% availability, make M800IP® the best choice for coping with mission-critical and last-resort needs all over the world.

Since many years, the Italian fire brigades have been covering their communication and dispatching needs by means of Voice Communication Systems provided by SITTI. The native capability of these systems to cope and correctly manage voice and data flows according to the latest international standards make SYNCRONIS® MULTIFONO® Voice Communication Systems (VCS) the best choice when it comes to the management of reliable, secure and controlled communications.

The Italian firefighting public emergency service is based on geographically distributed command centres (Comandi Provinciali), each covering a significantly wide area. These centres are equipped with an enhanced VCS (called UCG) from which trained personnel take all necessary decisions for the proper intervention in all cases where firefighters are involved and/or forward the call to other public services, like police and healthcare.

The maintenance of the 78 sites where SITTI UCG systems are installed has been awarded to a third company that is dealing with all logistics and intervention issues. In case of need, engineers from this company have the possibility of accessing a qualified helpdesk provided by SITTI, capable of providing all technical information for the proper handling of any issue that can in any way diminish the reliability of the overall system and the proper and quick solving of any upcoming problem.

World ATM Congress is the world’s largest international Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic Management (ATC/ATM) exhibition, taking place in Madrid from June 21 to 23. This unique venue is attracting industry market leaders and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) from all around the globe. Product developers, experts and end users gather for three days to share the latest products and achievements.

SITTI has been present at this important event since its very first edition. This is in fact the right place where Air Traffic Control stakeholders meet and make things happen. It is a very important event, where SITTI has the opportunity to show its latest developments in this field and to meet the interest of many customers, both those that are new to us and those who have been knowing us since long.

Following its vocation and commitment to present its Innovative Products to the international audience, SITTI will be participating in the 2022 edition of the World ATM Congress (WATC) exhibition. New ideas and product concepts will be shown, with special and particular attention to Integrated Solutions, combining data and voice.

Voice Communication Systems (VCS), VoIP gateways, recorders, integrated information solutions, consoles are the main products developed by SITTI to provide customers with a comprehensive solution to their needs.

Come and visit us at booth 562.

The Italian Air Force (AM – Aeronautica Militare) is aiming at creating a national network for connecting all Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems deployed at their various air bases. This will permit the use of SIP/VOIP services from the MULTIFONO® M800IP® Voice Communication Systems (VCS) provided by SITTI.

M800IP® is a server based VCS that natively deals with voice and data streams utilizing the VOIP technology in perfect compliance with the aeronautical standard applicable in air traffic management and control, with special emphasis on EUROCAE ED-137. The move from the current systems to a large-scale server based solution makes it possible to geographically distribute the provided services according to any logistic and strategic plans.

The creation of a network of voice communication systems nationwide will be accompanied by the implementation and testing of new features that will allow military controllers to make communications easier between them with different priorities according to the urgency of the message to be transferred: standard calls, direct calls, scramble calls. An instant messaging feature is included, which gives operators the capability of sending and receiving text messages.

This delicate operation is following the strict requirements set by AM, which has been asking for a very highly reliable hardware and software infrastructure. The proactive capability of SITTI to fulfil the challenging requirements of this project leverages on the expertise and experience acquired by the company as system integrator for complete and complex solutions in all fields where reliable, secure, configurable data and voice communications are required.

When thinking of SITTI, the majority of us would associate it to the air traffic control area of interest. Indeed, this is the market where SITTI has been particularly active, but its products can cope with many other fields of applications, wherever controlled, secure and reliable communications are required.

The Belgian Ministry of Defence has recently awarded SITTI the supply of a Maritime Voice Communication System (M-VCS) for the replacement and modernisation of their current system. The new system encompasses both fixed and mobile Controller Working Positions, thus allowing operators quickly moving to the location where their service is required, at the same time keeping contact with their colleagues.

The Maritime M-VCS belongs to the SITTI’s M800IP® MULTIFONO® family, fully compliant with the current international standards issued by the competent bodies. In order to properly manage analogue radios and telephone links, two server based radio/telephone VOIP gateways allow seamless connectivity. These are fully redundant: in the event of failure of one server, the other one takes over automatically and transparently, also recovering the active sessions prior to the failure. This ensures continuity of service even in case of hardware or link failure.

The maritime system being provided to the Ministry of Defence also includes a VRS800S Voice Recording System and its replay workstations; the recording/replay system (also server-based) can be easily expanded to cope with many hundreds of channels to be recorded. At least 90 days of continuous recording is guaranteed. Synchronous replay of all recorded sources can be accomplished without affecting the concurrent recording process.

This Maritime VCS (that will be delivered to the Belgian Ministry of Defence from 2022) furthermore testifies the great flexibility of SITTI systems that can be used in all those fields of application where radios, telephones and intercom connectivity is to be provided in an extremely reliable way for mission-critical uses, like air traffic control, harbours management and emergency services.

ENAV, the Italian Air Navigation Service Provider, decided to upgrade the services provided by the weather forecast offices and their related data repository. The target is to provide operators with a more efficient access procedure, thus giving them a better and more precise weather situation awareness.

The coordination of the upgrade activities has been awarded to SITTI, based on the well-grounded reputation as system integrator in different areas related to air traffic control and management. The integration of different information sources and data streams into a comprehensive system capable of presenting information in a coordinated manner to operators and controllers is in fact one of the strength point of SITTI.

This delicate operation has been accomplished according to the strict requirements set by ENAV, which has been asking for a very highly reliable hardware and software infrastructure, also comprising the centralized presentation of weather information collected at all remote Italian airports in real-time mode. The system includes a new teleconference architecture making use of a videowall system.

Among the many features made available by the provided integrated system, the following ones are especially significant to be mentioned:

• Weather information stored for long periods (at least 6 months).
• Forecast, satellite, radar, lightning data decoded and properly visualized
• Creating and sending of appropriate messages (like METAR,TAF,TAD) to spread information to all stakeholders
• VCS (Voice Communication System) upgrade for coping with the new connections and systems, including new ISDN Basic Rate connections

The challenging requirements driving this project have been fulfilled by SITTI with complete customer satisfaction, thus once more proving the capability of SITTI to present itself as a system integrator for complete and complex solutions in all fields where reliable, secure, configurable data and voice communications are required.

Pratica di Mare is an important military airfield close to Rome. This military air base hosts several services and functions used by the Italian Air Force (AM-Aeronautica Militare), and for this reason it accommodates a number of communication systems devoted to the interface to other remote military sites and remote radio stations.

The Pratica di Mare air force base is currently undergoing a renewal project with the aim at the modernisation of its infrastructure, especially for what concerns the management of the voice for air traffic control and coordination activities. The objective is to integrate all features and services into a single VCS (Voice Communication System) that guarantees proper response to present and future operational needs for air/ground and ground/ ground communications.

Leveraging on the long lasting and successful relationship with Aeronautica Militare, SITTI is giving its proactive contribution to this project that involves all services based in Pratica di Mare, from area air traffic control to the local airfield tower.

More specifically, SITTI will be providing the air base with server-based VCS solutions, belonging to the MULTIFONO^® M800IP^® family. This family of products is already installed at other air force bases and has proven its outstanding reliability and high performance characteristics. The positive return from other installations paved the way to the new supply. The new system provides the Customer with the same features and extremely high availability figures as the other similar systems deployed in Italy.

The system being installed at Pratica di Mare is based on a quad-based server installation, where all message handling, computation, signalling and voice switching are carried out by duplicated COTS servers dealing with radio and telephone connections. This innovative approach to integration of services permits having a system that can seamlessly switch from main to standby machines without affecting ongoing communications, while at the same time complying with all standard ED-137 VoIP (Voice over IP) requirements.

A further integration step is represented by MFT800 multi-functional terminals, which are being used by controllers to quickly acquire the information they require for getting situational awareness and promptly access the communication and service options made available to them.