WAEA Seat/IFE Integration Workshop February 17-18, 2000 AEEC AND ARINC 628 OVERVIEW AEEC ARINC ARINC Cabin Equipment Interface

Cabin Equipment Standards Context Diagram FAA, JAA, ATA, IATA, ICAO CABIN EQUIPMENT STANDARDS ARINC 628WAEA CHARACTERISTICS ARINC 485 ARINC 6XX ARINC 539 ARINC 592 ARINC 715 ARINC 722 ARINC 746 USA STANDARDS EIA MIL STD ANSI SAE RTCA EUROPEAN STANDARDS EUROCAE CEN INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ISO IEC OTHER ARINC STANDARDS ARINC 600 ARINC 404 NETWORK FILE SERVER NEW TECHNOLOGIES SATELLITE TV WIRELESS BROADBAND REGULATES USES

AEEC The Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) is an international standards organization, comprised of representatives from the major world airlines. Their main activity is the standardization of avionics form, fit, function and interfaces. The most widely known AEEC standards are ARINC documents

ARINC ARINC is a private company that provides Communications and information processing services for the aviation and travel industries The AEEC standards are generally administered by ARINC

Cabin Equipment Interfaces (CEI) The CEI is the AEEC subcommittee that develops the cabin standards The objective of the CEI committee is to define standard interfaces and design guidelines for cabin equipment The primary CEI standards series is ARINC Founded in 1992

ARINC Part 3 - Aircraft System Interfaces Part 7 - Cooling Part 2 - Cabin Mgmt & Entertainment Systems Seat Interfaces Part 4A/B - Std Wiring 90% - Mostly complete 40% - Need support of Industry 100% - Complete Supplements in process Draft Stage Composed of Eight Parts Part 5 - Part Selection & Wire Design & Instl Guidelines Draft Stage Part 6 - Fiber Optic Cable Assembly - General Specification Draft Stage Part 8 - Availability Draft Stage Part 1 - Cabin Mgmt & Entertainment Systems Head End Peripherals

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 1 - PERIPHERALS Interfaces & Guidelines for Head End Equipment ARU (Audio Reproducer Unit) CFS (Cabin File Server) Camera’s Projectors/Monitors VRU (Video Reproducer Unit) Noise Guidelines VTU (Video Tuner Unit) PFIS (Airshow- Pass Flight Info System) PRAM (Pre-recorded Announcement Machine)

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 2 - SEAT INTERFACES Interfaces & Guidelines for Seat End Cabin Equipment SEB Telephone Seat Actuator Controller Cord SVD (Seat Video Display) Passenger Video Player PCU Shrouds Headphones SVD Deployment Mechanism SVD Drawing Update MAS/Rockwell have proposals for additional SVD standard envelopes Proposal for In-Seat Power Airbus proposal for an integrated in-seat power system reading lights, seat motors, fans and power outlets for personal electronics devices (PED’s)

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 3 - IFE TO AIRPLANE INTERFACES Interfaces for Airplane/IFE Remote software upload/download - RSUD PART 4 - CABIN DISTRIBUTION WIRING Interfaces for standard distribution wiring Part 4A - Daisy chain topology Part 4B - Star wiring topology Seat related network Overhead video network Cabin management network Cabin electronics compartment

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 5 - PART SELECTION, WIRING DESIGN AND INSTALLATION STANDARD ARINC 628 Part 5 will standardize wire design and installation guidelines and currently contains: Standardize wire design Part Selection Guidelines Harness Design Guidelines Harness Installation Guidelines Fiber Optics Installation Guidelines References to other industry standards Draft is available for review

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 6 - FIBER OPTIC CABLE ASSEMBLY Defines general requirements for fiber optic components Draft 2 The pursuit of Part 6 as a procurement spec (ARINC does not release “specs”) PART 7 - IFE COOLING Uniform IFE cooling considerations Includes equipment and monument design and test methodology Draft 1 in review

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PART 8 - IFE AVAILABILITY Methodology for measuring and calculating IFE System Availability as a function of Seat Availability from a passenger’s perspective Draft 1 in review

ARINC 628 Summary & Section Definitions PROJECT PAPER HEAD END EQUIPMENT PROTOCOL This is yet to be a released document (ARINC 485 when published). Addresses various data interface definitions between IFE LRU’s Draft 3 nearing publication

ARINC Standards & Industry Strategy The ARINC supplement process allows for new proposals to be considered for published material Regular CEI meetings are a good forum for raising issues at a cabin industry level Next ARINC 628 meeting is scheduled for February in New Orleans