THE ARINC 818 STANDARD

Great River Technology and engineering firm Fiore reported huge jumps in revenue since 2011 after building their businesses over two to three decades. Great River’s revenue climbed from $1.9 million in 2011 to $4.2 million in 2015, earning it fourth place on this year’s list.

In 2005, Airbus and Boeing introduced an effort to further capabilities for the new 787 and A400M programs, and a new standardization...

Great River Technology has shipped the first production ARINC 818 4x4 Pantera switch. The switch handles multiple high-bandwidth, low-latency video signals for avionics systems. ​ ARINC 818 is a video interface for high-bandwidth, low-latency, uncompressed digital video transmission for mission-critical avionics systems, such as cockpit displays, mission processors, and video concentrators. “Since modern avionics systems have as many as ten ARINC 818 signals, engineers often