RTI Announces First Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Connectivity Software for Military Avionics Systems Based on FACE 2.1 Standard - Seite 2

"We announced our FACE TSS two years ago and have since worked with several military organizations to enable interoperable and reusable avionics systems," said David Barnett, VP of Product and Markets at RTI. "This new FACE TSS 2.1 reference implementation will drive the power of DDS into next generation systems using an open, flexible and robust COTS communications foundation."

The objective of the FACE Consortium, a consortium of The Open Group, is to create an open architecture and business strategy that will result in the development and procurement of portable and interoperable technology products and components, which will cut costs and reduce maintenance requirements in avionics systems. The FACE Technical Standard leverages more than 100 proven-in-service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including POSIX, ARINC 653, OpenGL and DDS. It couples these components with business models that encourage rapid innovation. These technical standards are driving a new era of COTS avionics solutions in both military and commercial markets.

The FACE TSS encompasses those APIs used for exchanging data between software components, for example, between a radar and display application. To ease integration, the FACE standard also specifies that exchanged data must conform to a well-defined data model with unambiguous semantics. The RTI TSS includes a compiler that generates C++ data types and the TSS API from a FACE data model, simplifying both development and integration.

Availability and Pricing
The RTI FACE 2.1 TSS is free of charge to RTI Connext DDS users. It is distributed as portable source code; customers have the ability to modify the software to meet their own system requirements. For additional support and enhancements, RTI offers a FACE TSS Support Package for $26,000 (USD pricing in U.S. and Canada).

About RTI
RTI provides the connectivity platform for the Industrial Internet of Things.

Our RTI Connext® messaging software forms the core nervous system for smart, distributed applications. RTI Connext DDS allows devices to intelligently share information and work together as one integrated system. RTI was named "The Most influential Industrial Internet of Things Company" in 2014 by Appinions and published in Forbes.