SOC-E successfully showcases Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) application for NGWS/FCAS Remote Carrier (Pillar 3)

July 1, 2026 -- During the past years, SOC-E has been developing a comprehensive range of IP Core products with TSN capabilities, including but not limited to TSN ethernet switches, a TSN endpoint, a TSN configuration tool based on the CNC (centralized network configuration) and hardware solutions among others.

However, in the context of aerospace applications there is still a way to go before TSN is fully established as the de facto technology for convergent communications (both critical and non-critical information) with all the hard requirements that this will entail.

Due to the relevance of the decision to be made around the use of TSN in safety critical applications, IEEE 802 and SAE Avionics Networks AS-1 A2 joined their forces back in 2020 in order to define a TSN profile that covers aerospace use cases.

As a result of this joint work, IEEE802.1DP-2025 profile (Time‐Sensitive Networking for Aerospace Onboard Ethernet Communications) release version was published back in November 2025. Not only IEEE and SAE International participated in the definition of the standard. A number of relevant companies (including SOC-E) have been collaborating in the working group for the last few years to make this happen.

This implies that relevant military programs can now consider TSN as a candidate technology for its use in the future platforms. And that’s exactly what is happening with the NGWS/FCAS (Future Combat Air System) program.

SOC-E had the privilege to be selected among a variety of other relevant companies to demonstrate the newest progress around deterministic ethernet in the context of the NGWS/FCAS Remote Carrier (pillar 3).

Explore SOC-E IP:

• 10M/100M/1G Multiport TSN Ethernet Switch IP Core
• 10M/100M/1G/10G Managed/Unmanaged (TSN) Ethernet Switch IP Core
• 100M/1G/10G TSN Endpoint IP

To meet SATNUS requirements, SOC-E built a physical demonstrator that combined TSN for the communication plane and PikeOS RTOS for the end-to-end communication between the devices, ensuring a low-latency, high-availability and synchronized communication across the network devices that represented a portion of an avionics network.

The constructed prototype is capable of demonstrating the differences between an ethernet network that is powered by TSN versus the same network without TSN capabilities. Performance differences were clearly shown specially as the network congestion increased. This is where TSN shines, providing the same level of performance in the network in the worst circumstances for the critical data.

SOC-E, a Spanish company, recently demonstrated its cutting-edge Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) solutions at the NGWS/FCAS Remote Carrier (Pillar 3) Marketplace in October 2025. SOC-E showed the results of the research and development project performed in a subcontract for SATNUS.