Why use an OPEN Communication Hub

AIRS is now installed in about 50% of the regional airlines in North America. Many of these airlines are codeshare partners of major airlines.

AvFinity is currently introducing its Open Communication Hub that addresses the need for simplification, knowledge transfer and collaboration within the logical framework of a major airline and its code-share partners.

With the OPEN Communication Hub, AvFinity simplifies host-to-host and outstation-to-host messaging, data and application communications.

The solution is designed to operate flawlessly within an Alliance’s heterogeneous systems and network environments.

Aviation SMS Alert Feature Jumps from Wish to Reality Because of AIRS

At AvFinity, we understand the value our customers derive from integration of aviation communications across multiple platforms. We built AIRS—the AvFinity Integrated Router Solution—specifically to create that value whenever the need arises. And although nothing can manage all unanticipated events, AIRS has a better chance of succeeding than anything else on the market.

For example, we recently received an inquiry from one of our airline customers asking if AIRS had monitoring capabilities. What they specifically wanted was to receive SMS alerts whenever the communications link from their Internet Service Provider went down between the AIRS appliance, which resides in the airline’s datacenter, and the AvFinity datacenter, which provides the direct connections to government border and flight authorities.

This airline has already been using AIRS for about a year to file flight plans and crew manifests to the FAA and USCBP, respectively. It has been pleased with AIRS’ reliability and integration capabilities. But after a few too many untimely Internet outages in their area, the airline’s operations and IT personnel wanted to monitor whenever their ISP dropped the link and delayed AIRS’ timely delivery of their flight plans and crew manifests.

During their year with AIRS, the IT manager became familiar with the versatility of this unique messaging appliance. He asked if AIRS offered a solution. After minimal configuration of the airline's AIRS appliance and AvFinity’s alerting system, his airline was receiving custom test alerts across five smartphones within an hour. The airline liked what they saw, and, shortly thereafter, AvFinity enabled this airline’s customized production alerting system. It was a case of “from wish to reality” in a matter of hours.

If your airline or aviation company has communications items on its wish list, we encourage you to consider AIRS. It not only provides more messaging features for today’s needs than you ever envisioned, it also is easily adapted to future or unanticipated issues.

For more information, we encourage you to visit our website on the AvFinity Integrated Router Solution or to sign up for a Webinar to discuss your airline’s needs and how AvFinity can provide the answer.

AvFinity Announces Preferred Partner Agreement with SITA

AvFinity is privileged to be selected as a preferred partner of SITA’s operation-critical communications solutions to the air transport community in the U.S. and Canada. We at AvFinity believe the combination of our AvFinity Integrated Router Solution (AIRS) with SITA’s comprehensive messaging services instantly extends unprecedented communications efficiencies to North American air carriers.

SITA’s offerings available to AvFinity as a preferred partner include Type B, Type X, and EDI messaging; SITATEX; and SITATEX software development kit.

This is one scenario of how the partnership benefits air carriers. The AvFinity Integrated Router Solution (AIRS) and its patent pending software technology link disparate communications environments, integrate into backend systems and provide seamless connectivity for message transfer—all without any impact on existing IT infrastructure. These benefits combined with the worldwide network and messaging capability of SITA provides a robust cost-effective and efficient aviation communications solution that can be implemented immediately.

As Sandra Girona, SITA’s Regional Vice President, North America Sales and Relationship Management., said: “We are very pleased to begin a new partnership with AvFinity. The worldwide network and messaging capability of SITA combined with the problem-solving capabilities of AvFinity will offer an efficient communications team for the benefit of the North American air transport industry community.”

Changes on the Fly

It’s a great month when a customer dealing with a problem can choose between tossing $50,000 to a team of developers to write software or solving it themselves for free.

But who has that choice?

Users of the AvFinity Integrated Router Solution (AIRS) do.

Here’s an example:

A recent AIRS user needed to solve a recurring format issue in their messaging system. Their messaging partner told them it would take $50,000 for developers to write a software alternative. Plus they’d have to wait several weeks.

AvFinity pointed them to the patent-pending scripting engine that comes with AIRS. It solved the issue in just minutes…at no cost. It also ended up saving them untold amounts in prevented fines.

AIRS integrates seamlessly with the client’s back-end system, and its proprietary scripting engine permits messaging conversion and much more to enhance that integration whenever needed. Sure, you have to know JavaScript, but even if you don’t AvFinity can write the script for you at a tiny fraction of any other option.