ARINC Expanding VHF Datalink Coverage in Middle East and Africa

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ARINC Expanding VHF Datalink Coverage in Middle East and Africa

ARINC says it will accelerate its planned investment in the Middle East and Africa by building out an extensive network of VHF air-ground stations there, and add to its AviNet communications network.

The Annapolis-based company, which is now part of The Carlyle Group, previously installed two new VHF stations at Bahrain and Dubai that are already operational. It now plans an aggressive rollout of VHF stations across the region, but soon will also deploy new VHF stations at Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Cape Town.

This significant expansion of VHF infrastructure in the coming months will add to ARINC's already considerable VHF voice and datalink coverage for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The company has also just expanded the capacity of its AviNet core global network by the addition of two new network nodes in Dubai.

ARINC says its AviNet network carries half of the world's air operational communications and has served commercial airlines and government organizations for more than 70 years. It also carries a major share of electronic business communications such as Type B networking to support the aviation and travel industries. The company believes its expanded network capacity at Dubai will now enable it to offer other new communications services in the region.

One innovation, AviNet Mail, has already proven successful in EMEA, adding over 650 mailboxes in the last 2 years, ARINC says, and has attracted well-known corporate names such as PWC Aviation, Z Aviation Services, UAS, Palm Aviation, and Hadid International, to its messaging service.

AviNet now switches 3 billion IATA messages a year (40% of the world's Type B messaging traffic), and supports all the major protocols and IATA formats, according to ARINC. It carries 65% of the world's air operational communications, as well as satellite broadband services. 11-15-2007.

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