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Case Study: PacketiX BOX

Fast and secure VPN for air traffic control

Reliability Engineering Foundation for Air Navigation Facilities (KSC)

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The Reliability Engineering Foundation for Air Navigation Facilities (KSC) operates the facilities for air traffic control in Japan, such as the VOR radio navigation system and the ARSR radar system. It introduced PacketiX BOX to build a VPN for fast and effective data sharing between its offices in all of Japan, from Chitose Airport in Hokkaido to Naha Airport in Okinawa.

Before, data on risks and device failure had been sent between the headquarter in Tokyo Haneda Airport and the branch offices by e-mail attachment, fax or mail. Mr. Oyamada, Airport Radio Technology Section Chief of the Radio Safety Management Section thought that a faster and more effective way to exchange data was necessary.

He examined several VPN solutions, but these often had yearly running costs of several million yen. After learning about the range of functions, security and practical structure of PacketiX VPN in a seminar, and evaluating it's quality and cost performance, Mr. Oyamada decided to build a network based on PacketiX BOXes instead.

The system was successfully put into operation in October 2006, and the goal of realizing a fast and effective data exchange between the branch offices was achieved.