X-bone, the ANSPs’ cross-border network, interconnects national network infrastructures of the civil Air Navigation Services Providers
- Austro Control, Austria (AT),
- Croatia Control, Croatia (HR)
- ANS of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- Hungarocontrol, Hungary (HU)
- LPS SR, Slovakia (SK)
at the moment. The Interconnection Framework Agreement on regional network for transmission of information (IFA) undertakes the abovementioned ANSPs and other two ANSPs
- BHANSA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)
- SloveniaControl, Slovenia (SI)
to establish X-bone, operate it and use it for exchange of ANS related applications. At present the network is allowed to transmit only messaging applications (OLDI and AMHS) and surveillance applications (radar data). All applications shall be first tested and validated at the X-bone TEST network before they may be put to the X-bone OPS (operational network). All data are transmitted using IPv6 packets within the X-bone.
The X-bone OPS network is under continuous monitoring, 24 hours a day, 365/366 days a year. The network engineers from all participating parties, being experts and/or managers, coordinate operational issues and standard changes via annual and extraordinary general meetings, or ad-hoc expert meetings. Further development and design of a new generation network is performed by means of a project running under umbrella of FAB CE programme.