The Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) is an

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that allows ground/ground, air/ground, and avionic data subnetworks to interoperate by adopting common interface services and protocols based on the

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OSI Reference Model. Aviation messages like OpMet data exchange is required to traverse the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN).
The European part of ATN used for ground/ground communications is represented by

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