Ground-to-ground networks for air traffic management

Accelerate ATM digitalization with high-performance, ultra-reliable IP networking

Ground-to-Ground Network solution

Ensure safe, resilient, efficient and sustainable air travel with digital air traffic management (ATM) services and communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) systems powered by the Nokia Ground-to-Ground Network solution.

Built for air navigation service providers (ANSPs), our converged IP/MPLS and segment routing solution provides high-performance, ultra-reliable connectivity that lets you realize the full potential of digital ATM and support your critical legacy applications.

Simplify and secure digital ATM transformation: Use one converged IP/MPLS and segment routing WAN to support all new and legacy ATM applications with strong resiliency, deterministic QoS, and full interoperability.
Modernize operations with proven solutions: Rely on robust connectivity and expert network planning, deployment, and support services to ensure a fast and successful transition for regional, domestic, and airport operations.
Achieve safer and more efficient operations: Reduce cost, complexity, and risk while maintaining service continuity and enabling sustainable digital ATM operations.

Why do ground-to-ground networks need to evolve?

Busier skies, new types of air mobility and a global push for sustainable flying present ANSPs with several urgent challenges. To keep pace, you need new technologies that can help you:

Ensure the highest levels of safety and security for all air traffic.

Optimize flight trajectories to reduce fuel consumption, carbon emissions and delays.

Increase airspace capacity and resilience to safely integrate new unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and advanced air mobility (AAM) systems.

Improve operational efficiency by extending air traffic control (ATC) to remote towers.

Many ANSPs are taking on these challenges by deploying digital ATM infrastructure and modernizing key CNS applications. This can include adopting trajectory-based operations (TBO), supporting controller–pilot data link communications (CPDLC) or enhancing surveillance with Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) and multilateration (MLAT) technologies.

These new systems demand more dynamic, resilient and data-intensive ground-to-ground communications than ever before. To achieve your transformation goals, you need to evolve your wide-area network (WAN) so it can meet the tough performance, latency and security requirements of digital ATM while continuing to support your essential legacy ATM applications.

Achieve more with Nokia Ground-to-Ground Network solution

Enhance network reliability and performance

Ensure communication demands for digital ATM and AI-enabled applications are met with high network reliability, availability, and capabilities.

Future-proof security

Implement zero-trust quantum-safe networking and automated security measures to protect against current and future threats.

Optimize costs and simplify upgrades

Reduce operating costs with a converged multiservice WAN and streamline network upgrades with infrastructure services.

Ensure service continuity and compliance

Protect existing investments, maintain regulatory compliance, and modernize ground-to-ground communications with WAN solutions meeting global ATC standards.

Enable innovation and scalability

Deploy an end-to-end network ready for next-generation applications and unlock new business opportunities with flexible, scalable solutions.

Get ready for next-generation digital ATM

Digital ATM advancements such as TBO, CPDLC and video analytics come with tough ground-to-ground communication demands. As applications make greater use of modern technologies such as cloud computing and AI, your WAN must support them with enhanced capabilities, robust security and seamless connectivity.

Our Ground-to-Ground Network solution uses four key network innovations to help you meet these demands and get the most from digital ATM applications:

Highly scalable ATM connectivity with segment routing

Extend robust communications to new ground-based assets. With segment routing, it’s easy to scale and control your WAN as you integrate new digital ATM innovations. You can take control of data traffic, reduce failures and use your transport infrastructure more efficiently.

More flexible ATC with OT cloud networking

Add flexibility by deploying your critical ATC applications in an on-premises operational technology (OT) cloud. Our OT cloud network solution lets you centralize ATC software on segregated servers in your data center and connect it to assets across the IP/MPLS and segment routing WAN. This gives you the end-to-end mission-critical connectivity you need to get full value from digital ATM.

An AI-ready ground-to-ground network

Let your network help you use AI to enhance aviation operations. Our Ground-to-Ground Network solution provides the end-to-end mission-critical WAN, OT cloud and data center network capabilities you need to get maximum value from AI training and inference workflows. Combining high bandwidth, low latency and strong resilience, it helps you harness AI to power real-time applications that improve aviation safety, efficiency, resiliency and sustainability.

Zero-trust quantum-safe security

Don’t let cyberattacks disrupt your ATM operations and digital transformation plans. Turn your WAN into a strong first line of defense against cyber threats by combining a zero-trust approach with a multilayer defense-in-depth framework complemented with quantum-safe encryption. With our help, you can build an impregnable defense against cyberattacks and new quantum threats today.

Ground-to-Ground Network use cases

Our solution lets you build the reliable, high-performance network you need to support digital and legacy ATM use cases that address your biggest challenges.

Maximize safety and security

Stream real-time video from connected CCTV cameras to enhance situational and operational awareness.
Use ADS-B and MLAT technologies to ensure that tracker systems and controllers have continuous real-time flight surveillance data.
Extend ATC services to remote towers and airfields to ensure that all controllers have access to critical weather and operational data.
Complement voice services with CPDLC to enhance pilot communications, improve strategic planning and optimize routing in-flight.
Deploy quantum-safe cryptography to shield your critical operations from quantum-enabled cyberattacks.

Increase airspace capacity and resilience

Use video and radar data captured at remote sites to broaden and enhance visibility of real-time operations.
Make the shift to collaborative, data-driven TBO to improve capacity, predictability and sustainability.

Improve operational efficiency

Apply AI-driven video analytics to real-time CCTV footage to generate insights that enable faster and smarter decision-making.
Draw on virtual pools of computing resources to analyze security videos and manage data for ATC services.

Solution components

Our Ground-to-Ground Network solution includes all the IP/MPLS, segment routing and data center networking capabilities you need to provide secure and reliable ground-to-ground communications for digital ATM applications.

Solution

Data Center Fabric

Bring new levels of reliability, simplicity and adaptability to your data center switching and cloud infrastructures.

Product

7210 Service Access System

Simplify GE/10GE aggregation, port extension and demarcation.

Product

7705 Service Aggregation Router

Build mission-critical field and wide area networks you can trust.

Our Ground-to-Ground Network solution in action

Discover how ANSPs around the world are using our Ground-to-Ground Network solution to achieve their operational and business goals.

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Nokia and Skyguide modernize the network supporting Switzerland's air traffic control system

Passenger jet flying past air control tower

Nokia to modernize Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation’s communication network for improved safety

Frequently asked questions

What is the Nokia Ground-to-Ground Network solution?

The solution is a high-performance IP/MPLS and microwave network that supports modern ATM applications and critical legacy systems for ANSPs.

How does it help ANSPs modernize operations?

By providing robust connectivity and expert services, the solution simplifies and accelerates the transition to safer and more efficient ATM operations.

What are the benefits for legacy systems?

Service continuity is maintained by seamlessly delivering legacy applications alongside new ATM services with tailored QoS.

How does the solution improve security?

End-to-end cybersecurity measures help ANSPs move from reactive responses to automated and proactive strategies.

What use cases does the solution support?

The solution supports a wide range of use cases, including remote air traffic control towers, situational awareness with CCTV, and access to remote radar data. Its flexible design allows ANSPs to address additional operational needs as they evolve.