Case Study: Comsoft achieves highly available, reliable European air-traffic tracking with Actian Ingres Database

Actian Ingres Database - the Basis for Europe’s Leading Tracking System

Comsoft, a leading German provider of air traffic management solutions, was the industry partner chosen by EUROCONTROL to develop the ARTAS tracking system, which creates a unified air picture from multiple sensor inputs for civilian and military control. Because ARTAS depends on a central configuration database accessed constantly by operating, monitoring and analysis components, Comsoft needed highly available, transaction‑reliable access to that data to keep safety‑critical applications running without interruption.

Comsoft implemented the Actian Ingres database as the stable, high‑capacity, fast and easily administered foundation for ARTAS, with professional Ingres support guiding a successful migration to a Red Hat Linux environment. The result is a cost‑effective, robust platform that supports continuous enhancements and now underpins ARTAS deployments in more than 30 European air navigation organizations, where it has become a de facto standard for tracking and surveillance.

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