EGYPT : air traffic control.

The company TELERAD, based in Anglet near Biarritz, is the French leader in radiocommunication and radio beacon equipment for air traffic control.
Within the framework of the project described here, they supply, for the entire Egyptian territory, the radio equipment enabling to establish communication between the aircraft and the ground-based air traffic control centers. Each aircraft, when entering the air space of a country, is managed by ground-based controllers.

Used by TELERAD for several years, TOPKAPI ensures in this type of application the monitoring of the proper operation of the equipment (transmission/reception, on/off, modulation, etc.) and more particularly the normal/emergency switch, all the equipment being doubled for safety purposes. The operator must be able to locate and identify instantly any failure, and take any corrective measures required. The supervisor enables also to allocate frequencies to control panels for communication with military aircraft. The main qualities of the supervisor expected by TELERAD and typical to TOPKAPI Vision are summarized as follows:

• meets the requirements of the final customers, who wish to have a Windows software package, with easy access and perfectly documented, enabling later adaptation and upgrades at a lesser cost; the specific software or that developed in environments such as Unix show their limitations when upgrading the initial applications (problems with competence, costs, lead-times)
• systematic supply of the development tools with the operation version
• access guaranteed to the sources of the software, enabling TELERAD to ensure full ten-year guarantee should AREAL fail (Note: which would be an Act of God)
• quality of the media, direct links with the editor.