As I am consolidating my blogs, I am transferring a posting from my aviation learning blog
This is about my path to learn a new technology
I am learning about data communication in the modern aircraft. It is using ethernet technology, modified to meet the aviation requirements of on-time performance.
My learning will be based on internet research starting with video..
The latest airliner like A380 is using ethernet technology for its communication. Many of us are aware of the shortcoming of the COTS (commercially off the shield technologies) and its unsuitability to manage the data communication in an aircraft. Some of the issues are, the ethernet respond time is beyond the acceptability limit and technology is designed on the best efforts. That mean if component A send the data to actuator B, the system tries its best to send the data, if it is not received, A will send te second time.