Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Stephane Tamalet

Frederic Durand

Gilles Gobbo

Jean-Georges Deville

An ACARS message communications system including at least one on-board piece of equipment harbouring an application adapted for transmitting and/or receiving ACARS messages, and a router adapted for routing, via a plurality of subnetworks, ACARS messages from and/or to the application. The piece of equipment and the router are connected to an AFDX network and the application is adapted for dynamic registration at the router, via the network, the router only routing the messages if the application is actually registered thereat.

ACARS router for remote avionic applications

A system for routing ACARS messages towards a plurality of transmission media, configured to be loaded onboard an aircraft, including: a database including a plurality of routing profiles, each profile being formed by a list indicating a rank of preference for each transmission medium, and a selection mechanism extracting, from an ACARS message sending request, a routing profile identifier, and selecting in the routing profile stored in the database, corresponding to the identifier, a transmission medium, according to its rank of preference, the thereby selected transmission medium then being used for transmitting the message.

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Fonsorbes, France

Stephane Tamalet