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A-SMGCS Services (EUROCONTROL)

In its recent guidance material for A-SMGCS implementation, EUROCONTROL has removed references to 'Levels' and has opted for a functional definition. Functions/services are referred to by name, in order to avoid confusion with the ICAO Manual and to dispel the assumption that the functions need to be implemented in numerical order. There is no contradiction between the two definitions by ICAO and EUROCONTROL as they provide the same functionalities from a different perspective.

Eurocontrol ITWP

ITWP (Integrated Tower Working Position) Soon...

Thales TopSky

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RECAT

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ACARS

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Time Based Seperation (TBS)

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VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

A  very small aperture terminal  ( VSAT ) is a two-way  satellite  ground station with a dish antenna that is smaller than 3.8 meters. The majority of VSAT antennas range from 75 cm to 1.2 m. Data rates, in most cases, range from 4 kbit/s up to 16 Mbit/s. VSATs access satellites in geosynchronous orbit or geostationary orbit to relay data from small remote Earth stations (terminals) to other terminals (in mesh topology) or master Earth station "hubs" (in star topology).