COROBOR engineers have just completed the installation of the MESSIR-COMM GTS Message Switch at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
The system was turned operational early October 2001 following a 3 week installation and is now handling all national and international connections at the KNMI - most of them via TCP-IP.
MESSIR-COMM manages links to three major centres via RMDCN : the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF), the UK Met Office and the Deutsche Wetterdienst (Offenbach, Germany).
MESSIR-COMM also manages connections to the KNMI head office in De Bilt, to its Aviation Services Divisions at the Schipol, Maastricht-Aachen, Rotterdam and Groningen airports and at the Den Helder Naval Airbase. It also provides a connection to the Maritime Services Divisions at Hoek Van Holland and Middelburg.
Data coming from METEOSAT, SADIS and NOAA-HRPT satellite systems is also processed.
This is the third MSS project won by COROBOR in Europe since the beginning of 2001.The contract was signed early May 2001 by Michel Bourguès, Managing Director of COROBOR, and KNMI Head of Division J.I.J. Boot.
The KNMI is an important organisation which has been providing meteorological information to the Dutch general public and all major domestic institutions since 1854.