Solutions to New ICAO Radar Recording Requirements for ATC: A three point plan for keeping your airport up-to-date with current legislation.

There has recently been a key change in the policy of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO): Radar recording of primary and secondary surveillance data is no longer recommended but mandated, as of 23rd November 2005.

This white paper explains the changes in ICAO legislation and the current status of ATC requirements and recommendations for voice logging and radar recording. Primarily it outlines the current known state of radar recording standards and assesses how you can adhere to such standards. The document attempts to provide understanding of the latest requirements and recommendations, as made by the following authorities:

• ICAO
• UK CAA
• Eurocontrol
• EuroCAE

This white paper outlines the options for radar recording and recommends the best solution.

Audience

This white paper is relevant to:

• Those responsible for the operation of the recording system at any airport
• Those whose airports either currently use radar or may do so in the future

Locate vital information automatically

The ability to record audio channels digitally is now well established in situations such as:

• Courtrooms
• Air traffic control communications
• Lawful Intercept by Law Enforcement Agencies
• Police and Immigration interviews
• Emergency Services command and control position
• Surveillance by Law Enforcement Agencies

With the ever increasing communications and the rapid development of digital recording technology and decreasing costs of mass storage huge quantities of data from a variety of sources are being recorded.

The result is that most organizations do not have sufficient manual resource to analyze the recorded data and may be missing vital information and intelligence. Best in class audio analytic tools allow rapid identification of important information that may be buried within thousands of hours of these recordings. Whether you are searching for a word, a phrase, a person or just trying to understand complex relationships audio analytics can greatly enhance your operational capability and save significant costs. However these technologies only produce effective results in certain scenarios.

This paper reviews when various data mining technologies such as key word spotting, text to speech, speaker ID, language ID, should be used to achieve the best results. The paper also discusses practical ways in which Supervisors and Managers can use this knowledge to maximize manual and automated resources.

Audience

This white paper is relevant to:

• Analysts
• Managers
• Supervisors

In particular it is relevant to those responsible for recording solutions and whose budgets are weighed down by the labor costs of trawling through thousands of hours of recordings.

Solutions to VoIP (Voice over IP) Recording Deployment: A three point plan for updating your communications network to record VoIP

Solutions to VoIP (Voice over IP) Recording Deployment: A three point plan for updating your communications network to record VoIP

Although Voice over IP (VoIP) has been around for several years, the benefits of integrated voice and data solutions and the prospect of lower cost, centralized equipment for business is one just being realized.

With this new method of voice communications follow new requirements to record this information.

This white paper describes the benefits and solutions to recording VoIP communications.

This document will:

• Describe VoIP and its benefits
• Outline solutions to recording VoIP
• Describe the procedure to be follow to successfully record your VoIP communications

Audience

This white paper is relevant to:

• Those responsible for the operation of any recording system and wish to know more about VoIP and VoIP recording
• Those whose networks either currently use VoIP or may do so in the future.

Mass Storage: Ongoing integration of voice and data prompts renewed emphasis on storage infrastructure

With the ongoing integration of phone call recording into the wider field of voice and data services, the telecoms industry is being forced to rethink its network infrastructure and technology resources. A major element of this infrastructure is data storage. Whether a RAID array, internet enabled NAS, SAN, or emerging archive media such as Blu-ray, the economies of scale to be achieved are considerable.

Whole industries wish to minimize administration and cost associated with legacy storage solutions, whilst legal requirements within certain industry sectors also mean that voice recording information and associated data files must be kept for a minimum number of days or years…