[nycbug-talk] Networking on Airbus

[Siraaj Khandkar]

Here are some links about what I was talking about today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_Full-Duplex_Switched_Ethernet
http://www.four-d.de/english/pdf/cids_e.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29351778/Airbus-Embedded-Network
http://www.icao.int/anb/panels/acp/WG/n/swgn1-2/sgn1%20wp209%205-19-04.doc

So in theory it seems that avionics net should be physically separated from cab operations that are linked to passenger accessible net, but I guess the realities of the implementation still remain to be explored...

Air traffic controlled (owned?) over TCP/IP? As Captain Jack Aubrey said: "What a fascinating modern age we live in!"

-- Siraaj Khandkar