skopje/munich 3月 09, 2023
rohde & schwarz is delivering and implementing its full ip voice communication system, certium vcs, to the international airports in skopje and ohrid in the republic of north macedonia. under a contract with north-macedonian air navigation service provider (ansp) m-nav gojsc, who is operating throughout the national territory of the republic, factory acceptance tests (fat) were recently concluded at the rohde & schwarz center of competence for vcs in bucharest, romania. currently the installation and deployment of the project are successfully undergoing on site.
m-nav gojsc will use certium®vcs to cover the main operations of the area control center (acc), the airport control towers (tower and/or approach), as well as simulator and to provide integrated air-ground and ground-ground communications.
one of the challenges of the project was to integrate two remote working position at ohrid airport as a part of the same voice communications system deployed at skopje airport. due to the cutting-edge voip technology embedded within certium®vcs, an easy implementation of vpn communications for the equipment located at both sites is enabled. certium®vcs provides full redundancy, including distributed deployment over various sites. the contract between m-nav gojsc and rohde & schwarz was signed in may 2022.
dragoljub patchev, project manager at the m-nav technical department, emphasizes: “the rohde & schwarz communication system is very advanced and flexible, ahead of time, solution for m-nav gojsc that can enable our future expansions and ensure to meet all our requirements for provisioning safe, secure and efficient air traffic management in north macedonia.”
”our certium®vcs solution offers outstanding flexibility and we are confident the new system in north macedonia will improve safety, security and efficiency, helping m-nav gojsc cope with evolving atc operational requirements,” alexandru negulescu, managing director, rohde & schwarz center of competence for vcs, concludes.
rohde & schwarz is striving for a safer and connected world with its test & measurement, technology systems and networks & cybersecurity divisions. for over 90 years, the global technology group has pushed technical boundaries with developments in cutting-edge technologies. the company's leading-edge products and solutions empower industrial, regulatory and government customers to attain technological and digital sovereignty. the privately owned, munich based company can act independently, long-term and sustainably. rohde & schwarz generated net revenue of eur 3.16 billion in the 2024/2025 fiscal year (july to june). on june 30, 2025, rohde & schwarz had more than 15,000 employees worldwide.
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