LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 1 LINK Test Facility Overview Located at EEC Bretigny - France In support to LINK EATMP project Includes three components: –CM/CPDLC Test Facility –VDL Mode 2 Test Facility –ATN Network Infrastructure Facility

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 2 CM/CPDLC Test Facility Objectives Offering an inter-operability testing platform for LINK Baseline Support to Avionics and Airlines Support to Maastricht and other Ground implementations Support in deployment of Ground-Ground infrastructure (and Ground to Air-Ground infrastructure )

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 3 CPDLC Air and Ground Test Tools Functionality Implement LINK2000+ Baseline Air and Ground messages sets with support of single and concatenated messages Support of Test Error cases: –Invalid message sequences, wrong message ID –LACK not sent –Unsupported messages Automatic generation of messages with configurable period (to stress remote system)

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 4 Air/Ground Test Tools Architecture AIR/GROUND TEST TOOL HMI Airtel CPDLC/CM ASEs ATN Upper Layers Airtel TAR-TTS BIS/ES Ethernet Access X.25 Access COMPAQ EVO PC Linux OS Wanware X.25 boards Lan integrated interface

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 5 CPDLC Ground Test Facility

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 6 VDL M2 LAB Test Facility Objectives To get a system in LAB functionally as similar as is possible to the operational system: –verification of VDL M2 intended functioning –close look at VDL M2 Handoffs To be able to conduct end-to-end CPDLC testing in LAB via VDL M2 To get expertise on the ACSP VDL M2 equipment To help in investigations of real environment VDL M2 problems

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 7 VDL M2 LAB Test Facility Functionality Core component: the ARINC VDL M2 AGTS –Operationally equivalent ATN/VDL M2 capable Test facility –Includes two VGSs and associated VDRs –Includes Variable RF attenuators for simulation of live mobile environment –Includes A/G BIS and G/G BIS routers –Allows registration of traces in VGSs and monitoring of the VDL M2 traffic from a third VGS/VDR set

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 8 VDL M2 Test Facility Architecture Avionics Pallet CMU VDR Vdl-2 radio VGS Control Unit Vdl-2 radio A/G router G/G router Ground Test Tool Equipment Coaxial Cable Network MCDU VDL M2 Air/Ground Test system:AGTS

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 9 ROCKWELL COLLINS Avionics Pallet Installed at EEC

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 10 ARINC VDL M2 AGTS Installed at EEC

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 11 LINK End to End Architecture End to End ATN VDL M2 Network Architecture End to End CM/CPDLC Architecture

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 12 ATN/VDL M2 Network Architecture AGR GG Bis GG Bis ARINC Network UAC/Maastricht X25 switch GG Bis PROATN TAR/TTS Airtel ES EEC/Bretigny GG Bis PROATN P2FEP PROATN ES x25 X25 switch AGR FDPS Ground/Air Test Tools ARINC NR ATN VDL M2 VGS

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 13 CM/CPDLC End To End GBIS ProATN GES ProATN MADAP P2FEP Maastricht UAC GBIS ATN ES HMI CPDLC Ground Centre CMU Simulator Collins Cedar/Rapids X.25 Network A/GBIS ProATN Ground Ground ASEs TAR-TTS TEST FACILITY EEC Bretigny Air ASEs TAR-TTS TEST FACILITY Air CMU ATN VDR MCDU R ES Avionics ATN A/G R VGS VDL M2 Network

LINK EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 14 LINK ATN VDL M2 Flight Trials Status From September 03 to October 03 : Flight trials with NLR Citation experimental Aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins Avionics against EEC CPDLC Ground Facility. –Main objective is to complete check of LINK VDL M2 area coverage December 03: Start of SAS revenue flights against EEC and Maastricht Development system.