Croatia Control selects RAD's Optimux to connect air traffic control towers

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 25 January 2008

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(2008), "Croatia Control selects RAD's Optimux to connect air traffic control towers", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 80 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2008.12780aab.013

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Croatia Control selects RAD's Optimux to connect air traffic control towers

Croatia Control selects RAD's Optimux to connect air traffic control towers

RAD Data Communications, a provider of network access equipment for voice and data communications, has announced that Croatia Control, the organisation responsible for airspace regulation in Croatia, has invested in RAD's Optimux-4E1 optical line multiplexers. The Optimux products, which were sold through RAD's authorised distributor Nessco, are being used as communications links to connect air traffic control towers at Dubrovnik and Zadar airports with remote radio sites.

Croatia Control bought the Optimux products through Park Air Systems, which was commissioned by Croatia Control to upgrade its digital radio and remote control monitoring systems. “Croatia Control wanted an international company with a local agent and chose RAD,” explained Nigel Aitken, Consultant Systems Engineer at Park Air Systems. “We'd also used RAD's Optimux products before on a project for NATS, the UK's air navigation service provider.”

Optimux-4E1 multiplexers provide low-cost, long distance E1 connectivity by extending multiple voice and data circuits over fibre optic links. They transmit four E1 channels and Ethernet up to 120km over optical fibre. Croatia Control's Optimux multiplexers are equipped with hot swappable links and redundant power supplies, ensuring power redundancy and fail-safe operation.

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