Harris Corporation completes IP over ATM backbone for the FAA

Telecomworldwire, Nov 30, 2005

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-30 November 2005-Harris Corporation completes IP over ATM backbone for the FAA(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has said that its US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) programme team has successfully completed the Internet Protocol over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (IP over ATM) backbone for the FTI network.

The company is reportedly the prime contractor and system architect for the FTI programme, awarded in 2002. FTI will upgrade and improve telecommunications and operations functions at more than 5,000 FAA facilities nationwide, while significantly reducing operating costs. The IP over ATM backbone interconnects the nodes of the largest FAA facilities across the US, consisting of 21 Air Route Traffic Control Centers and six other sites, transporting critical information such as flight plans, surveillance data, weather data and navigation aids.

The backbone utilises two different long-distance carrier networks, one from Sprint and one from AT&T, enabling the rapid distribution of significantly more information than was possible with the legacy FIRMNET network.

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