- ARINC
Infobox_Company | company_name = ARINC
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = "Dedication Beyond Expectation"
foundation = 1929 as Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated
location = Headquarters in Annapolis,Maryland ; EMEA Regional Headquarters in London,United Kingdom ; Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters inSingapore ; and more than 120 locations worldwide.
key_people =John M. Belcher : Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
num_employees = 3,200
industry =Airports ,Aviation , Defense,Government , Healthcare, Networks,Security , andTransportation
revenue = profit$919 million USD (2006).
products =
homepage = [http://www.arinc.com/ www.arinc.com]Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated (ARINC), established in 1929, is the leading provider of transport communications and
systems engineering solutions for eight major industries: (aviation ,airports , defense, government, healthcare, networks, security, and transportation). ARINC has installed computer data networks in police cars and railroad cars and also maintains the standards forline-replaceable unit s.ARINC is currently owned by the
Carlyle Group , which acquired the company in October 2007.ARINC is headquartered in
Annapolis ,Maryland and has two regional headquarters:London (established in 1999) to serve the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region andSingapore (established 2003) for the Asia Pacific region. ARINC maintains more than 3200 employees at over 120 locations worldwide.History
ARINC, as it is known today, was incorporated in 1929 as Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated. It was chartered by the
Federal Radio Commission (which later became the Federal Communications Commission) in order to serve as the airline industry’s single licensee and coordinator of radio communication outside of the government. The corporation's stock was held by four major airlines of the day. Through most of its history, ARINC was owned by airlines and other aviation-related companies such asBoeing until the sale to Carlyle.Not much later ARINC took on the responsibility for all ground-based, aeronautical radio stations and for ensuring station compliance with FRC rules and regulations. Using this as a base technology, ARINC expanded its contributions to transport communications as well as continuing to support the commercial aviation industry and
US military .In the 1950s ARINC developed the science of
reliability analysis.ARINC also developed the standards for the trays and boxes used to hold standard line-replaceable units (like radios) in aircraft. These permit electronics to be rapidly replaced without complex fasteners or test equipment, usually returning the aircraft to service in a short time.
In 1978 ARINC introduced
ACARS © (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System), which is a datalink system that enables ground stations (airports, aircraft maintenance bases, etc.) and commercial aircraft to communicate without voice, but data, due to the datalink system being integrated with aircraft systems via a Communications Management Unit (CMU), such as fuel quantity, weight on wheels, FMS, etc.ARINC has expanded its business in aerospace and defense through its ARINC Engineering Services subsidiary.
ervices
In addition to ACARS, ARINC operates many communications services for the transportation industry including:
* AviNet Global Data Network, formerly known as the ARINC Data Network Service (ADNS)
* Air/Ground Domestic Voice Service
* Air/Ground International Voice Service
* Airport Remote Radio Access System (ARRAS)
* AirVUE—Information Display System for Airports
* Centralized Flight Management Computer Waypoint Reporting System (CFRS)
* Satellite Navigation & Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems (SATNAV & ATCALS)
* ARINC Wireless Interoperable Network Solutions (AWINS) - connects all types of radio and telephone systems including standard UHF and VHF analog radios, mobile digital, voice over IP systems, ship-to-shore, air-ground, standard phones, and push-to-talk cellular.
*ARINC Direct & Business Aviation Solutions - Provides corporate aircraft maintenance and modifications for the business aviation industry at two state-of-the-art facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.tandards Categories
* 400 Series : guidelines for installation, wiring, data buses, databases, etc...
* 500 Series : analog avionics equipment (used for example onBoeing 727 , Douglas DC-9, DC-10, as well as on early models ofBoeing 737 and 747, andAirbus A300 , aircraft)
* 600 Series : design foundation for equipment specified per the ARINC 700 Series
* 700 Series : digital systems and equipment installed on aircraft of digital avionics systems. Among the topics covered by Specifications are data link protocols
* 800 Series : enabling technologies supporting the networked aircraft environment. Among the topics covered in this series is fiber optics used in high-speed data buses
* 900 Series : avionics systems in an integrated modular and/or networked architecturetandards
ARINC 404 andARINC 600 define the ATR andMCU form factors for line-replaceable electronics units in aircraft. These standards date back to the 1930s. [cite web|url=http://www.atrbox.com/reference/atrbox.html|title=What is an ATR Box?]ARINC 424 is an international standardfile format foraircraft navigation data. [cite web|url=http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2002-December/002695.html|title=Flightgear-users - ARINC 424]ARINC 429 is an electrical and data format standard for a 2-wire serial bus with one sender and many listeners. This standard defines one of the most commonly used data buses on modern commercial aircraft.ARINC 429 , like theARINC 561 standard, is based on theARINC 575 data format.ARINC 573 is the standard format for all DFDR (Digital Flight Data Recorder) and FDR (Flight Data Recorder) Data parameters that are required by ICAO and FAA to be recorded.ARINC 610B is a guidance for use of avionics equipment and software in simulators.ARINC 615 is a family of standards covering "data loading", commonly used for transferring software and data to/from avionics devices.ARINC 624 is a standard for aircraft onboard maintenance system (OMS). It usesARINC 429 fordata transmission between embedded equipements.ARINC 604 is a standard and guidance for the purpose of designing and implementing theBuilt-In Test Equipment (BITE). The description of theCentralized Fault Display System (CFDS) is included in this standard. [cite web|url=http://ato-p.se-apps.faa.gov/faastandards/TrmQuery.cfm?Cat=23|title=FAA Standards, Category: Aeronautical]ARINC 629 is a multi-transmitter protocol where many units share the same bus. It was a further development ofARINC 429 especially designed for theBoeing 777 .ARINC 633 is the air-ground protocol for ACARS and IP networks used forAOC data exchanges between aircraft and entities on the ground.ARINC 653 is a standard for partitioning of computer resources in the time and space domains. The standard also specifies APIs for abstraction of the application from the underlying hardware and software.ARINC 661 normalizes the definition of acockpit display system (CDS), and the communication between the CDS and User Applications (UA). TheGUI definition is completely defined in binary definition files (DF). The CDS software is constituted of a kernel which is able to create theGUI hierarchy specified in the DF during initialisation, thus not needing to be recompiled if the GUI definition changes. The concepts used by ARINC 661 are close to those used inuser interface markup language s, except that the User Interface (UI) language is binary and notXML -based.ARINC 664 defines the use of a deterministic
Ethernet network as an avionic databus in modern aircraft like theAirbus A380 and theBoeing 787 .ARINC 708 is the standard for airborne weather radar. It defines the airborne weather radar characteristics for civil and military aircraft. This standard also defines the way to control and get information from the radar.ARINC 739 is the standard for communication between the MCDU and the systems attached to it.ARINC 825 is a standard forCAN bus protocol for airborne use.ARINC 828 is an interface standard used to connectEFB , e.g. Laptops, to aircraft.ee also
* RTCA
References
External links
* [http://www.arinc.com/ ARINC website]
* [http://www.arincpanamacity.com/ ARINC Panama City website]
* [http://en.flugfunk.de/ Aeronautical Communications in Germany (english)]
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