SITA SA operates worldwide communications networks to support civil aviation. The network uses public and private internets, public X.25 data networks, and satellite networks to move information. TSG's SyncSwitch 8000s are used at key satellite communications nexus locations. With the SyncSwitch 8000, public and private X.25 network links and X.25 satellite network data is seamlessly bridged over the global SITA internet.

With link speeds of up to 256Kilobits/second and thousands of virtual circuits connected at once, the SITA installations represent the largest capacity installations of SyncSwitch worldwide.

The capacity and redundancy requirements for the SITA installations presented unique challenges that TSG solved on SITA's behalf with tailored application and network interfaces which optimized application access to communications facilities for increased system performance.