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OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

  -- Fully automated program enhances safety and optimizes usage of

     air space by alerting air traffic management systems about

     exceptional weather up to eight hours in advance

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=1156049697&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2F&a=United+States+Federal+Aviation+Administration) (FAA) is using Solace's market-leading event streaming and management

platform (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=3999845303&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsolace.com%2Fproducts%2Fplatform%2F&a=event+streaming+and+management+platform ) to efficiently collect and distribute the real-time

information required to power their NextGen Weather Systems, which are comprised

of Common Support Services – Weather (CSS-Wx) and NextGen Weather Processor (NWP).

The NextGen Weather System's processing platform supports the identification of traffic

flow constraints and en-route safety hazards, and provides translated weather information

needed to predict route blockage and airspace capacity constraints up to eight hours in advance.

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As stated on the FAA website (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=3008673525&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2Fnextgen%2Fprograms%2Fweather%2Fnwp%2F&a=FAA+website ), "NWP combines information from weather radars, environmental

satellites, lightning, meteorological observations (from surface stations and aircraft),

and NOAA numerical forecast model output to generate improved products for all

FAA users and National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders."

The application of Solace technology (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=2447696294&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsolace.com%2F&a=Solace+technology )

to NextGen Weather Systems is an example of FAA's NAS Enterprise Message

Service (NEMS), an implementation of message-oriented middleware commonly

called System Wide Information Management (SWIM) in the aviation space. NEMS is

a NAS-wide system that provides the digital data sharing backbone for their

many and varied NextGen initiatives and is based on Solace technology.

According to the FAA website (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=2235784213&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faa.gov%2Fair_traffic%2Ftechnology%2Fswim%2Foverview%2F&a=FAA+website ), "SWIM enables increased common situational awareness

and improved NAS agility to deliver the right information to the right people at the

right time. SWIM is the infrastructure that offers a single point of access for aviation

data, with producers of data publishing it once and users accessing the

information they need through a single connection."

For NextGen Weather Systems specifically, PubSub+ (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=1697383588&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsolace.com%2Fproducts%2Fplatform%2F&a=PubSub%2B )

will handle the process of dealing with diverse data formats and ensuring the

real-time delivery of weather data via the NWP Aviation Weather Display (AWD),

and to systems like Time-Based Flow Management (TBFM) and Traffic Flow

Management System. These systems, which also interact with Common Support

Services-Weather (CSS-Wx), process massive amounts of weather data and produce

decision support information to the Air Traffic decision-makers directly responsible for

ensuring both safety and the optimal use of air space at all times, especially during

inclement weather.

Advantages of NextGen Weather Systems

     - State-of-the-art translation products allow air traffic managers

       to collaboratively achieve more efficient strategic and tactical

       use of the airspace and significantly reduce weather-related air

       traffic delay.

     - Provides a consistent weather picture tailored to specific aviation

       requirements

     - Translates weather picture into reliable airspace constraints for

       air traffic decision-making

     - Enables safe, timely, and efficient operation of the National

       Airspace System (NAS) in all kinds of weather

     - Consolidates multiple FAA weather programs with overlapping capabilities

"We're excited to be working with the FAA to make the skies safer for travelers

while optimizing available airspace and helping airlines operate more

efficiently," said Denis King (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3005357-1&h=977149535&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fdenis-king%2F&a=Denis+King ),

CEO, Solace. "It's particularly gratifying to see NextGen Weather Program tap into

the solid SWIM foundation of NAS Enterprise Messaging Service that FAA has built

with our PubSub+ event streaming and management platform, and we look forward to

working closely with them as they leverage that solid base for other NextGen applications."

About Solace

Solace helps large enterprises become modern and real-time by giving them

everything they need to make their business operations and customer

interactions event-driven. With PubSub+, the market's first and only event

management platform, the company provides a comprehensive way to create,

document, discover and stream events from where they are produced to where they

need to be consumed – securely, reliably, quickly, and guaranteed. Behind

Solace technology is the world's leading group of data movement experts, with

nearly 20 years of experience helping global enterprises solve some of the most

demanding challenges in a variety of industries – from capital markets, retail,

and gaming to space, aviation, and automotive. Established enterprises such as

SAP, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Canada, multinational automobile

manufacturers such as Groupe Renault and Groupe PSA, and industry disruptors

such as Jio use Solace's advanced event broker technologies to modernize legacy

applications, deploy modern microservices, and build an event mesh to support

their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and IoT architectures. Learn more at solace.com.

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Source - Solace Corporation