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- DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (German Air Traffic Control) Relies on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to Transfer Critical Data
- Regulated by air traffic law, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH DFS directs and controls air traffic and the receipt, processing and forwarding of flight plans. The airspace over Germany is among the most heavily populated in the world. On any given day, more than 8,000 airplanes are moving along airways through...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Air Traffic Control, Enterprise Server, Aerospace & Defense, E-mail, Servers, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Hardware
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- The FAA Improves Incident Response Time and Regulatory Processes
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control system. The FAA needed new processes and technologies for improving event response, reducing time and cost to create new regulations,...
- Tags: FAA, Incident Response, Air Traffic Control, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Regulations, Strategy, Manufacturing, Government, Management
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- Nexima's Air Traffic Control Solution Takes Flight With Dundas Data Visualization
- Nexima develops solutions for reporting, analysis and decision support, with customers from a wide range of businesses and public services. A reporting module was needed to control and view data in the security and safety system. The reporting module had to be visual appealing easily convey information, and have thorough...
- Tags: Module, Air Traffic Control, Nexima, Data Mining, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Manufacturing, Management
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- Retrospective: 10 security blunders
- Every year gets its share of major, jaw-dropping security blunders. This is a retrospective for the 21st century so far, with special attention on 2007. 2007 News While one of the following links is actually from early 2008, they all refer to issues...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sears Roebuck & Co., Air Traffic Control, Rootkits, Aerospace & Defense, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Manufacturing, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Images: Flight simulator has users flying high
- VatSim flight simulation network gives aviation enthusiasts a realistic look at air traffic control.
- Tags: air traffic control, network
- Image galleries 2006-12-18
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- Information Needs in Flight Monitoring: A Tool in Aviation Security
- The Next Generation Air Transportation System security concept introduced flight monitoring as a part of risk management and shared situational awareness. Information on the aircraft performance, its flight trajectory, and the onboard situation with people and cargo are all part of the flight monitoring. This information is required to manage...
- Tags: Mitre Corp., Monitoring, Information, Tool, Aerospace & Defense, Security, Manufacturing
- White papers 2007-05-24
- Impact of UMTS Load Control Mechanisms on TCP
- Radio Resource Management RRM algorithms are responsible for efficient utilisation of the air interface resources in UMTS networks. Network load control is one important task of the RRM functionality aimed at ensuring system stability around the targeted network load defined by the radio network planning. A common load control action...
- Tags: UMTS, Network, Radio, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-06-01
- CAL-AIR Reaches New Levels of Cost Control and Process Efficiencies
- CAL-AIR, incorporated in California in 1953, provides a wide range of engineering, design, construction, maintenance, and repair services for nearly every type of mechanical and process system in commercial/industrial facilities. To keep pace with what technology could offer the company and its customers, CAL-AIR began to look at options for...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Cost Control, CAL-AIR, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Services, Hardware
- Case studies
- Air Guard (exe)
- The game story takes place during World War II. In 1940, Nazi Germany decided to gain overwhelming superiority in the air to break the resisting nations once and for all. You have nothing to lose now. You decided to join the Air Force to defend your family and your country....
- Tags: Nazi, Game Story, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-06-20
- A Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Methodology for Nasa-Developed Air Traffic Control Decision Support Tools
- This paper describes the development of a Life-Cycle Cost LCC estimating methodology for air traffic control Decision Support Tools DSTs under development by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, using a combination of parametric, analogy, and expert opinion methods. There is no one standard methodology and technique that is...
- Tags: NASA, Methodology, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Photos: Software clears flights for takeoff
- A visit to Adacel, which develops software primarily aimed at the air traffic control industry. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Software, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management, CNET News.com, news, adacel, airplanes
- Image galleries 2008-06-16
- An Integrated, Distributed Traffic Control Strategy for the Future Internet
- Due to the lack of a general theoretical foundation, nowadays distributed traffic control mechanisms developed at the networking layer, transport layer, and overlay are largely disintegrated. As a result, traffic control protocols developed at different layers may achieve conflicting design objectives and interact with one another in an unpredictable fashion....
- Tags: Traffic, Internet, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-15
- Sun Case Study: Air China
- Air China, with more than ten subsidiaries domestically and internationally, is China's biggest air carrier and boasts the country's largest company assets and highest-throughput traffic volume. Air China needed to provide its staff with efficient and secure access to a variety of existing business applications, without expensive and time- consuming...
- Tags: China, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tarantella Inc., Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Application Servers, Asset Management, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- The FAA Improves Response Time and Regulatory Processes
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. The FAA controls approximately 200,000 takeoffs and landings per day and moves nearly 700 million commercial air passengers per year. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control...
- Tags: FAA, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Regulations, Strategy, Manufacturing, Government, Management
- Case studies 2005-12-19
- auxiliary fans
- I'm looking to add an auxiliary fan to the rear of my case, does it matter if it draws air into the case or sucks it out?Start the DebateThis question may actually belong in the discussion forum as there are many strongly held opinions on cooling.My personal preference is for...
- Tags: sgt_jml@...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-02
- MPLS Based Best Effort Traffic Engineering
- The advent of Multi-Protocol Label Switching MPLS enables traffic engineering by introducing connection-oriented features of forwarding packets over arbitrary non-shortest paths. The goal of this research is to improve the network utilization for best effort traffic in IP networks. By examining the best effort traffic class, this paper assume the...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Effort Traffic, Traffic Engineering, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Air Traffic Management Company Traps 98 Percent of Spam Using New Solution
- Switzerland-based Skyguide is the country's official provider of air traffic control for civil and military aircraft. In 2003, the company deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 as its messaging system and used Microsoft Intelligent Message Filter IMF to manage spam. But with infrequent updates to the IMF...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Microsoft Exchange Server, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Spam, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Case studies
- DiffServ Over MPLS: Tuning QOS Parameters for Converged Traffic Using Linux Traffic Control
- MPLS over DiffServ couples the diffserv's per hop guarantees with MPLS traffic engineering capabilities to provide better Quality of Service QoS guarantees than that provided by MPLS or DiffServ alone. Linux provides powerful traffic control features to ensure proper traffic classification and differentiation. However, the current implementation of the traffic...
- Tags: QoS, MPLS, Linux, Network Technology, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-09-10
- Dynamic Optimization in Future Cellular Networks
- With multiple air-interface support capabilities and higher cell densities, future cellular networks will offer a diverse spectrum of user services. The resulting dynamics in traffic load and resource demand will challenge present control loop algorithms. In addition, frequent upgrades in the network infrastructure will substantially increase the network operation costs...
- Tags: Algorithm, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Optimization, Network, Cellular Network, Engineering, Networking
- White papers 2005-08-03
- This little motion sensor went to the market...
- writing numbers in the air???what a completely useless ability THAT is! Like most jokes - it's interesting - once. Imagine, God forbid, they actually approve the use of cellphones on planes. Now we have not only irritating voices all the way to LA but juveniles (young and...
- Tags: jeff.overright.cwfa@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
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