SITA
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SITA (originally an acronym for "Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques") is a multinational information technology company specialising in providing IT services to the aviation industry.
SITA was founded in February 1949 as a cooperative by 11 airlines, providing communications between airports and pioneering telecommunications. They were the first to handle data traffic in real time via a packet switched network over common carrier leased lines.
Today, SITA SC remains as a cooperative, while SITA INC (Information Network Computing) was spun off in 2000 as a separate commercial entity. As of today SITA INC has over 640 members in the aviation network.
In July 2006, all three branches of SITA entities were combined under a single global unit called SITA. Franceso Violante heads the SITA organization now based in Geneva.
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Chretien, G.J.; Konig, W.M. and Rech, J.H. (1973). "The SITA Network". Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computer Communication Networks: 373-396, Sussex, United Kingdom: Noordhoff International Publishing.
