COMSOFT

Customer System Introduction

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Content

Organisational Matters
Contact Details
Daily Time Schedule

System Overview
Software Components
Hardware Components

System Architecture
Message Flow
Redundancy

System Highlights & Special Features

AIDA-NG
CADAS-ATS
CADAS-IMS
CCMS
CNMS
EFG

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Organisational Matters Contact Details

COMSOFT Trainer
Name:
Position:
Contact:

Marlo Arturo Ga
Project Engineer
Phone: +63 33 320-5014
E-Mail: marloarturo.ga@comsoft.aero

Company:

COMSOFT Asia Pacific Services Inc.

56 Burgos St. Lapaz
Iloilo City, Philippines

Training Location: Lima, Peru

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Organisational Matters Daily Time Schedule

Daily Time Schedule

Start

End

Activity

09.00 a.m.

10.30 a.m.

Lesson/Practice

10.30 a.m.

10.45 a.m.

Break

10.45 a.m.

12.15 p.m.

Lesson/Practice

12.15 p.m.

01.00 p.m.

Lunch

01.00 p.m.

02.30 p.m.

Lesson/Practice

02.30 p.m.

02.45 p.m.

Break

02.45 p.m.

04.15 p.m.

Lesson/Practice

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Content

Organisational Matters
Contact Details
Daily Time Schedule

System Overview
Software Components
Hardware Components

System Architecture
Message Flow
Redundancy

System Highlights & Special Features

AIDA-NG
CADAS-ATS
CADAS-IMS
CCMS
CNMS
EFG

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System Overview Software Components

The PER-AMHS-UPG system is composed of the following components (1)

AIDA-NG (Aeronautical Integrated Data Exchange Agent Next Generation)
Advanced and fully integrated AFTN/AMHS message switching system product, including
a universal gateway for all types of aeronautical messages

CADAS-ATS (COMSOFT Aeronautical Data Access System Air Traffic Services)

Client/Server system, providing full ATS end user services

CADAS-IMS (CADAS Information Management & Services)

Provides AIS management facilities for NOTAM messages, Meteo messages and briefing
functions

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System Overview Software Components

The PER-AMHS-UPG system is composed of the following components (2)

CCMS (COMSOFT Configuration Management Suite)
Provides configuration management features for the different hardware and software
components of the COMSOFT system

CNMS (COMSOFT Network Management System)

Provides hard- and software monitoring services for the whole COMSOFT system

EFG (E-Mail/Fax Gateway)

Provides e-mail/fax services for AFTN messages

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System Overview Hardware Components

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Content

Organisational Matters
Contact Details
Daily Time Schedule

System Overview
Software Components
Hardware Components

System Architecture
Message Flow
Redundancy

System Highlights & Special Features

AIDA-NG
CADAS-ATS
CADAS-IMS
CCMS
CNMS
EFG

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System Architecture Message Flow

AFTN
Terminals

AMHS
User Agents

CADAS-ATS
Server

AIDA-NG
OWPs

AFTN
X.400 MTA

AIDA-NG
Server
AFTN Message Switch

CADAS-IMS
Server

X.400/AMHS

E-Mail/Fax
Gateway Server

Fax

NOTAM/Briefing
Terminals
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System Architecture Redundancy

Redundancy = Duplication of critical components of the operational system

with the intension to avoid a single point of failure
AIDA-NG:

CSS Component Operational / Hot Standby

RSS Component Operational / Operational

CADAS-ATS:

Operational / Operational

CADAS-IMS:

- Server cluster system

- Linux-HA (High Availability)
- DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)

Network:

Network infrastructure is established redundantly

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Content

Organisational Matters
Contact Details
Daily Time Schedule

System Overview
Software Components
Hardware Components

System Architecture
Message Flow
Redundancy

System Highlights & Special Features

AIDA-NG
CADAS-ATS
CADAS-IMS
CCMS
CNMS
EFG

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System Highlights & Special Features AIDA-NG

AIDA-NG
Powerful message routing and queue handling
Proven interoperability and standard conformance with AMHS, X.400 P1/P3/P7,
ATN, AFTN, ADEX-P, etc.
Multi-site configuration management
Excellent performance and throughput capacity
Fully integrated, easy-to-use HMI
User-configurable online diagnostics and statistics

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System Highlights & Special Features CADAS-ATS

CADAS-ATS

Built-in AFTN Terminal compatibility

Integrated AMHS User Agent (UA)
Powerful FPL management features
ICAO compliant message input forms
Syntactic and semantic message checks
Support of the present and the new ICAO FPL 2012 format
Powerful retrieval features
Elaborate firewall-secured architecture

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System Highlights & Special Features CADAS-IMS

CADAS-IMS

Fully automated NOTAM database

Fully standard compliant syntactic and semantic message checks
Integrated self-briefing functionality
NOTAM creation with static data support (FIRs, Aerodromes, etc.)
Custom charts for visual verification of NOTAM data
Pre-Flight Information Bulletin (PIB) as public service via Internet

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System Highlights & Special Features CCMS

CCMS
Provides powerful configuration management features for the whole COMSOFT
system
Separation of configuration objects into Location, Platform, and System objects
Web-based application front-end
Multi-site support
Automatic distribution of several types of new software versions

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System Highlights & Special Features CNMS

CNMS

Monitoring and supervision of computer system states and network infrastructures

Multiple view options for hardware, software applications, and network status
Intelligent status propagation from detailed to overview displays
Monitoring via SNMP, ICMP, SMTP, TCP (HTTP, POP, IMAP), UDP (NTP, DNS)
User-configurable plug-in concept
Web-based application front-end

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System Highlights & Special Features EFG

EFG
Supports the receiving of standard SMTP RFC 2822 messages (e-mails)
Conversion of the received SMTP messages into appropriate formats
Re-sending messages as G3 or G4 fax messages

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