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1. Executive summary

In accordance with the terms of reference of FG AC Working Group 4, this Report examines the feasibility of
using recent developments in commercial broadband services, as well as reusing existing infrastructure, for
real-time flight data streaming where appropriate.

There are a number of current and future infrastructure components and data link services which will satisfy the
objectives of the global aeronautical distress and safety system (GADSS). These are examined in detail in this Report.

2. Background and context

The global aviation community in its quest for continuous and sustainable safety of air navigation shortly
after the Malaysia Airline MH 370 disappearance at the behest of the Government of Malaysia held an Expert
Dialogue Meeting in Kuala Lumpur that culminated in the setting up of the Focus Group on Aviation Applications
of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring (FG AC) by the International Telecommunication Union.
Based on the above, the FG AC held its first meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1-3 December 2014, during
which four sub-working groups were established. Since then, four other meetings were held: February 2015
in Montreal, Canada (ICAO HQ), May 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland (ITU HQ), August 2015 in Los Angeles, USA
(Teledyne Controls), and December 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany (Deutsche Lufthansa HQ).

The terms of reference of Working Group 4 (WG4):

"The deliverable examines the feasibility of using recent developments in commercial broadband services, as
well as reusing existing infrastructure, for real-time flight data streaming where appropriate."

The following input contributions were received for Deliverable 4:

i) AC-I-018 – Implementation considerations for real-time flight data monitoring by Teledyne Controls,
United States.

ii) AC-I-017 – Broadband services for flight data monitoring by Inmarsat, United King-dom.
iii) AC-I-013 – Input to Deliverable 4 by Intelsat, Luxembourg.
iv) SITA Aviation Cloud

v) Further to the above, additional inputs have come from group members, ICAO, ITU, and RTCA SC –206
DO-349 Appendix C published in 2014, groups, and during plenary sessions and meetings as well as other
stakeholders.
This Report is based on inputs received from FG AC participants.

The following were areas of focus in this work:

• Ground-based infrastructure;
• On-board information systems infrastructure; and
• On-board data links infrastructure.

Other considerations were capability limitations, cybersecurity and International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).

Additional experts contributed in the course of WG4 deliberations. The full list is contained in Appendix 5.

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