Originally Posted by
Neo380
it shouldn’t last much longer, centralised monopolies with no proper scrutiny lead to huge waste and inertia, not to mention the issues with single points of failure and ‘whitewashing’ the facts we’ve seen.
Distributed technologies mean you will soon be able to have proper and resilient decentralised markets without the current barriers to entry that exist and the ‘pretend competition’ we have at the moment.
Of course, your ANSP has to have some competency in technology. But thanks Corp Comms.
Distributed technology on its own won't bring much more than hardware redundancy if you just put "old" ATC software on it.
Where do you get the application software that takes advantage? The problem with this market is twofold.
First it requires great investment by the software supplier for what is not much return, there aren't actually that many ANSPs to buy or licence it.
Second the market is dominated by a handful of large companies with an investment in 40 year old software to protect.
I know of an ANSP that needed to replace some ancillary software in the flight data area. The tenders were from the usual suspects plus a small software company. That tender was promising and would have brought more modern development processes but in the end it was marked down because of their lack of experience in the industry and knowledge of the standards applying to ATC software. The ANSP was worried that if there was a later issue the headlines would be even worse. A more modern version of nobody got sacked for buying IBM.
The solution to that as you say is probably a "disruptor" developing a solution outside of the industry but they'd need deep pockets which might limit the options to companies you may not like
Corporate NATS would probably welcome that. They just want to run an ATC service and have never liked being as much an engineering company as an ATC service provider.