Doc9880-Part-IV-b-Amendmentproposalsjuly2011 - Unedited Advance Doc 9880 Part IV-b
Doc9880-Part-IV-b-Amendmentproposalsjuly2011 - Unedited Advance Doc 9880 Part IV-b
Doc9880-Part-IV-b-Amendmentproposalsjuly2011 - Unedited Advance Doc 9880 Part IV-b
AFTN Component
The AviSuite CIDIN component com- The integrated Monitoring and Control The conversion of AFTN addresses
prises a CIDIN/AFTN application and a Position (iMCP) provides a user-friendly into AMHS and vice-versa is controlled
CIDIN protocol stack. The application graphical interface to manage all by address look-up tables which
converts AFTN messages into CIDIN components of an AFTN/CIDIN/AMHS must have the same content in each
format and vice-versa and maps message switch. It indicates all sys- gateway worldwide in order to en-
the AFTN Destination Addresses (AD) tem events to administrators and sure that all messages passing gate-
onto CIDIN Exit Centre Addresses operators. Different types of system ways are switched correctly. The
(AX). The protocol stack handles the events can be configured as audible/ amount of addressing data and the crit-
Entry/Exit Centre transport protocol visible alarms which have to be icality of faulty assignment make
and the network layer protocol with acknowledged. A large variety of com- an automatic support of COM Centre
the routing and relaying of CIDIN mands allows channel control, circuit operators at the configuration of their
packets by their AX addresses. Both and address diversion, etc. AFTN/AMHS gateways indispensable.
PVCs and SVCs are supported. The EUROCONTROL’s ATS Messaging
CIDIN functionality fully meets ICAO Multiple versions of configuration ta- Management Centre (AMC) provides
EUR Doc 005 – EUR CIDIN Manual, bles can be maintained for all applica- coordinated MD-, CAAS and User
6th edition. tions; specific checks ensure that Address look-up tables in CSV format
only mutually consistent table sets can to the COM Centres for download.
be activated. A comfortable user interface allows
AMHS Component import of these data into the directory,
AFTN messages received with format thus making them available not
The AviSuite AMHS component con- errors and/or non-routable addresses only to the MTCU, but also to the User
sists as a minimum of an X.400 Mes- are forwarded to an intelligent correc- Agents.
sage Transfer Agent (MTA) and an tion position.
X.500 Directory Server. The MTA ex- Furthermore, the AviSuite switch pro-
changes AMHS messages with other The operator can retrieve and repeat vides statistics data as specified in
MTAs via the P1 message transfer messages using a variety of search ICAO EUR Doc 021 – ATS Messaging
protocol, with AMHS User Agents via criteria. Trace and journal data contain Management Manual, Version 7.0 for
the P3 MTS access protocol and with additional information about messages upload into the AMC.
the AFTN component via the Message and their processing in the switch.
Transfer and Control Unit (MTCU). The A statistics module provides meaning-
MTA uses a built-in Directory User ful statistical data which can also be
Agent (DUA) to obtain routing infor- exported into CSV files for further anal-
mation and other configuration data ysis with office tools.
from the X.500 directory. Optionally a
Message Store (MS) can be employed The iMCP also includes user permis-
which provides the P7 MS access pro- sions management.
tocol to AMHS User Agents.
The status of hardware components
The MTA communicates via and connections are collected by use
RFC1006/TCP/IP and/or via ATN Inter- of SNMP and displayed graphically.
net Protocol, thus being configurable
as a dual stack AMHS switch.
AFTN/AMHS Gateway