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After the launch of the ILS category III B system in Gdask the new DME radiolocation center in southern Poland and the innovative CPFIS system on Friday January 29 another project of the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency was launched to strengthen the safety of air operations in the Polish skies SDDC - Surveillance Data Distribution Cloud. The new system will ensure the highest safety standards in air traffic and thanks to the fast transfer and instant data analysis the flight time will be reduced which will have a positive impact on the natural environment. So everyone will benefit airlines airports and above all airline passengers.The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency collects and monitors data on aircraft traffic in the Polish skies on an ongoing basis. These are the so-called surveillance data which are obtained primarily from radar systems distributed throughout the country.In order for these data to be used safely and efficiently by air traffic control services they are collected in a special data exchange network. Such a network is the surveillance data distribution system in the cloud - SDDC which was built completely from scratch within 12 months as part of a project conducted by the CNS Support and Development Center of the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency.- With the implementation of the new SDDC system we made a technological leap in the field of surveillance data distribution - said Dariusz Bkarciak Head of the COM Center EPWW Department. - PANSA is currently among the few air traffic management institutions in Europe that have modern solutions in this area - he emphasized.SDDC was successfully launched at PANSA in the evening hours of January 29 2021. Thanks to the use of cloud technology the new system will ensure faster more reliable and even more secure provision of information on aircraft traffic to air traffic controllers.SDDC is a distributed system consisting of many SDDN nodes Surveillance Data Distribution Node installed in 4 locations - Warsaw Gdask Pozna and Krakw. Thanks to the use of cloud technology anyone with access to the system has access to all collected data. Moreover the SDDC system not only collects but also provides very extensive possibilities of managing aircraft flight data. It enables advanced filtering and conversion of surveillance data between their various formats. The system is also scalable which means that it can be easily expanded with new nodes in new locations and the existing nodes can be modified in accordance with the needs of users during operation.The priority for PANSA is data security and integrity which is why a number of security measures have been applied in SDDC to minimize the likelihood of any interruption in access to the collected information. One of the most important is hardware redundancy i.e. duplication of systems in the event of failure of any of them. For this purpose two identical wide area networks were created operating independently of each other.The contractor for SDDC commissioned by PANSA was a consortium of Fujitsu and Filbico. The creation of the SDDC system is one of the tasks of the only air infrastructure project implemented in Poland with co-financing from the European Union Cohesion Fund under the Operational Program Infrastructure and Environment 2014-2020. The cost of all tasks carried out by the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency under the project Development of infrastructure of the state air traffic management authority - stage II is PLN 231562136 and the EU subsidy is PLN 158475368.
