The aviation industry must control costs in all areas. Unfortunately, most cost-cutting solutions take years to realize savings (e.g., introducing online bookings to phase out paper tickets or modernizing baggage and freight handling). The OPEN Communication Hub is unique among cost-controlling solutions in that it immediately can simplify the airline business with significant savings while imparting efficiency and messaging control from the time of installation.
AIRS is the key to rapid implementation for the OPEN Communication Hub. AIRS handles all flight-critical data regardless of format, communications protocol or transport medium. AIRS’ unique ability to link legacy and more modern IT architectures permits all airlines—including those with unsophisticated IT systems—to communicate immediately with all other airlines, government authorities and other required entities.
AIRS revolutionizes messaging in ways that the aviation industry has never before considered. It brings communications management, simplification, knowledge transfer and collaborative capabilities to the control of airlines for the first time in the history of aviation. In this way, AIRS redefines airline communications.
AvFinity provides airline and general aviation customers with a complete communications solution for their mission-critical needs.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Flexible, Open Aviation Messaging
Increasingly, more airlines are now required to connect to partner airlines through new network channels. This is especially true in today’s climate of alliances, mergers and code shares. Airlines need to make communications changes at a moment’s notice. And to achieve that flexibility once meant throwing the problem to a costly team of developers or a legacy provider. But it’s much easier in today’s environment.
Today, airlines increasingly choose newer, open network technologies like those offered by AvFinity to increase their options. The reward for airlines that choose AvFinity is a flexible, open network that allows carriers control over their messaging for the first time in aviation history.
A recent example is a North American regional airline that needed to send messages in a new address format to its legacy airline partner. With AvFinity’s new technologies, such as AIRS™, the regional airline found a fast and efficient way to make the in-house adjustments automatically without the normal associated costs of legacy networks. The solution required no legacy message providers, no costly development team and provided lower messaging costs.
Airlines also have been migrating much of their network messaging through IBM WebSphere MQ channels. To simplify airline MQ management for airlines, AvFinity incorporated IBM WebSphere MQ, either Client or Server, as part of its embedded services. This feature increases airline flexibility by enabling the management of any number of MQ channels to handle the growth in message flows.
In fact, that’s one of the reasons Trans States Holdings, Inc. recently chose AIRS for its three airlines.
AIRS also provides airlines with vital data communications, plus message formatting, routing and managing, integration into office systems, connectivity to government border and flight authorities, and much more.
AvFinity has a proven track record in improving and modernizing airlines’ data communications systems. For proof look no farther than the fact that more than half of North America’s regional airlines have adopted AvFinity technology in just the first 18 months that AIRS has been on the market. AvFinity has helped these airlines migrate from closed, proprietary systems to the new, open, more flexible communications technology that will identify the aviation industry of this century.
Today, airlines increasingly choose newer, open network technologies like those offered by AvFinity to increase their options. The reward for airlines that choose AvFinity is a flexible, open network that allows carriers control over their messaging for the first time in aviation history.
A recent example is a North American regional airline that needed to send messages in a new address format to its legacy airline partner. With AvFinity’s new technologies, such as AIRS™, the regional airline found a fast and efficient way to make the in-house adjustments automatically without the normal associated costs of legacy networks. The solution required no legacy message providers, no costly development team and provided lower messaging costs.
Airlines also have been migrating much of their network messaging through IBM WebSphere MQ channels. To simplify airline MQ management for airlines, AvFinity incorporated IBM WebSphere MQ, either Client or Server, as part of its embedded services. This feature increases airline flexibility by enabling the management of any number of MQ channels to handle the growth in message flows.
In fact, that’s one of the reasons Trans States Holdings, Inc. recently chose AIRS for its three airlines.
AIRS also provides airlines with vital data communications, plus message formatting, routing and managing, integration into office systems, connectivity to government border and flight authorities, and much more.
AvFinity has a proven track record in improving and modernizing airlines’ data communications systems. For proof look no farther than the fact that more than half of North America’s regional airlines have adopted AvFinity technology in just the first 18 months that AIRS has been on the market. AvFinity has helped these airlines migrate from closed, proprietary systems to the new, open, more flexible communications technology that will identify the aviation industry of this century.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The ROI of OPEN Communication Hubs
AIRS is a moderately priced complete data integration/data communications system that provides airlines and their partners with quick paybacks and healthy returns on investment. AvFinity pricing makes the OPEN Communication Hub instantly viable to all participants.
For airlines, AIRS can become a value-added communications tool that generates healthy revenue while still providing a significant return to the airline customers.
For more information on the AIRS pricing model, contact AvFinity.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Why GDSes need OPEN Communication Hubs
GDSes are an essential connection with the Open Communication Hub. AIRS has established airline connectivity with GDSes such as:
•Abacus
•Amadeus
•HP/EDS Shares
•SABRE
•TravelPort (Worldspan/Galileo/Apollo)
What limits a GDS is a tendency to provide the messaging bundled as part of its managed services. The Open Communication Hub allows not only airlines to interconnect easily to multiple GDSes, but to develop their own strategy (marketing, technical, etc.). That, in turn, allows their partners, in this case the GDS, to integrate its networks and applications.
Monday, November 21, 2011
3 Critical elements of an OPEN Communication Hub
AvFinity’s Open Communication Hub solution set offers airlines these three components that provide them with unprecedented control of their communications:
IP VPN Networks:
· Enables the customer to connect to multiple IP-based VPN’s via a single connection
· Enables the customer to reduce the number of legacy connections through direct host-to-host communications.
· Enables the customer to communicate with any device regardless of communication interface, host-to-host (H2H) and host-to-application (H2A) access
· Enables the customer to switch data and application at the hub
· Enables the customer to access airline databases & applications
· Enables the customer to create and deploy applications on open standard platforms using AvFinity supplied ASMSTM software:
o Connectivity communications (Legacy protocol to IP connectivity)
o Business Rules (application logic)
o Parsing (creating data records from legacy applications)
o Scripting (rapid development languages)
o Remote hardware and software management
o Remote software installation and configuration
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Applications:
· Enables the customer to create and deploy applications on open standard platforms (Cisco or servers) within the network
· Enables network based Business Rules (application logic)
· Enables peer-to-peer application management e.g. APIS segment conformance
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