Case Study: FAA achieves faster, more reliable aerospace communications with FairCom DB

FAA processes 1.5 million flights a day with FairCom DB

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required a highly reliable database solution for its National Airspace Data Interchange Network (NADIN), a mission-critical system that disseminates flight plans. Its previous system could not meet the required uptime, guaranteeing only three nines of availability and allowing for nearly nine hours of potential downtime per year. To ensure national safety and efficiency, the FAA needed a solution that could provide at least five nines of uptime and turned to FairCom DB.

By implementing FairCom DB, the FAA gained a high-performance, multi-model database that processes hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. FairCom DB provided the necessary five nines reliability with less than six minutes of downtime annually. This solution also gave the FAA immediate access to reliable data for better rerouting during inclement weather, enhancing safety and saving time and money for the millions of passengers who rely on U.S. airspace daily.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)