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Old 02-09-2011, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by mswhin63 View Post
..... When I left the railway they were implementing fibre anyway, the link not only provide fast data they also provide consistent data communications......
I could see many ways to skin this cat, but, sorry, a public optical fibre network wasn't one of them.

Are you serious? Any concerns about: security, integrity of service, proprietary hardware and software all plugged into a public or 3rd party network?

Also made me wonder how steam trains ever got around

ATC did something similar years ago. As an end user of their (centralised) system I have to say I find their level of service as wanting.

Outside controlled airspace I much prefered the "quaint" Radio (and copper ) Flight Service units...with human operators... that often gave invaluable briefings of local traffic + weather information that the automatic/remote system are now oblivious to.
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