Documents List

• SITA's History: The First 30 Years (7.9 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  116 downloads since then.

  In this document published in 1979 in the "SITA ANNUAL REPORT 1978", SITA's history is presented in detail , icluding the role of the founding airlines and their representative.
  A very unique tribute to the role of all those who made SITA possible as a worldwide reality!

• The SITA network in the 70's (8.1 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  99 downloads since then.

  This technical paper was authored by G Chrétien, W Konig and J Rech and published in 1975 in the NATO Advanced Study Series on Computer Communication Networks.
  The SITA network as it stood before the deployment of the DTN is
  fully described.

• Methods to Control and Operate a Message-Switching Network (6.7 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  179 downloads since then.

  This paper, written by Joachim Brandt and Georges Chrétien, was presented at the Symposium on Computer Communications Networks and Teletraffic, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, April 4-6, 1972.
  In this paper the principal methods to control and operate a store-and-forward network are considered. The Sita network and Type A and Type B traffic are presented with an analysis of transit times.

• SITA HO before 1968 and meeting in Vancouver (1.4 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  242 downloads since then.

  SITA Head Office was initially located at 92 Avenue de Wagram and the moved to 9, rue Théodore de Banville in Paris until 1968. A photograph of that building is shown in this documment.
  You will also find another picture (taken in 1978?) of a meeting held apparently in Vancouver and on which we can recognize:
  Seated from left to right: Jacqueline Lacat, Barbara Cote, Koen Molenaar, X, Norman Stoddart from Air Canada and later Chairman of SITA Board, Georges Baurens AF, Thies Dekker KLM
  Standing: BOAC representative, Solly Dwek, X, CP Air Telecom Director, Burt Way BEA, X, X, Des Andorka, X, X.

• Photogragh of a SITA meeting in Singapore in 1971. (1.3 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  86 downloads since then.

  SITA held a meeting in Singapore in 1971 for the purpose of developing network facilities in the Pacific area. On this photogragh we can see G. Monniot, then General Manager of SITA, addressing the audience.

• SITA NYC Center in 1971 (4.3 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  96 downloads since then.

  The SITA NYC center was the "most sophisticated in the entire network". in 1971 the decision was taken to replace the former Univac 418-II with a more powerfull Univac 418-III. This migration was performed in September 1971 and came along with a relocation of the site to Bohemia. The photograph shows the new installation.

• The SITA network in 1970 (2.5 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  161 downloads since then.

  In 1970 the HLN was put in operation. See the complete set of maps of the SITA network in 1970!

• SITA HLN and First Type A transmission with BEA in 1971 (1.1 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  142 downloads since then.

  In 1971 SITA celebrated the first anniversary of the HLN network and performed the first transmission of Type A traffic over the HLN for BEA with a CRT in ROM and the BEA BEACON ASRS - 5 computer reservation system in LON.

• SITA Head OfficeManagement in 1975 (439.5 KB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  124 downloads since then.

  Picture of SITA Head Office Management in 1975 with list of names (from SITA Annual Report 1975)

• s.i.t.a. monograph 2: Some head office activities, D.Kroneberg ,editor (10 MB)  
  In category: SITA Library.
  186 downloads since then.

  In this monograph edited by D. Kroneberg in July 1972 to inform SITA Members about the main tasks of SITA Management.
  The introduction is from Georges Monniot and there are contributions from R. Bébié, C. Avignon, B. Weibel, A. Carson, C. Deroual, D. Andorka and D. Kroneberg.
  Surprisingly there no article on the SITA oldest service still in activity: the Type B service!