IP connectivity and DAP

The information technology (IT) revolution, combined with people´s need to access information quickly, has resulted in the explosive growth of the Internet in the past decade. Ubiquitous access to the Internet has become an essential component of a mobile workforce and multiple mechanisms are being devised to ensure seamless connectivity to corporate resources. The authors present a possible use of the available IP connectivity between the airplane and the ground stations for the download of voice/video/data traffic from an airplane onto the ground stations to ease the reliance on blackboxes in a post-incident scenario. A discussion of the simulation test-bed, the results obtained and the practical set of guidelines for their deployment in real-world situations is also included.