1. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 1 LINK 2000+ Test Facility Overview Located at EEC Bretigny - France In support to LINK 2000+ EATMP project Includes three components: –CM/CPDLC Test Facility –VDL Mode 2 Test Facility –ATN Network Infrastructure Facility

2. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 2 CM/CPDLC Test Facility Objectives Offering an inter-operability testing platform for LINK 2000+ 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 )

3. LINK 2000+ 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)

4. LINK 2000+ 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

5. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 5 CPDLC Ground Test Facility

6. LINK 2000+ 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

7. LINK 2000+ 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

8. LINK 2000+ 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

9. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 9 ROCKWELL COLLINS Avionics Pallet Installed at EEC

10. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 10 ARINC VDL M2 AGTS Installed at EEC

11. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 11 LINK 2000+ End to End Architecture End to End ATN VDL M2 Network Architecture End to End CM/CPDLC Architecture

12. LINK 2000+ 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

13. LINK 2000+ 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

14. LINK 2000+ EEC Test Facility - ATN 2003 London 14 LINK 2000+ 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 2000+ VDL M2 area coverage December 03: Start of SAS revenue flights against EEC and Maastricht Development system.