Chennai, 15-16 th December 2008Norman Nunn © 2008 Avitech AG ICAO Asia/Pacific Region AMHS Implementation Workshop AMHS Implementation - an Industry Perspective

Chennai, 15-16th December 2008Norman Nunn © 2008 Avitech AG

ICAO Asia/Pacific Region AMHS Implementation Workshop

AMHS Implementation

- an Industry Perspective –

Avitech AGFriedrichshafen, Germany

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Norman Nunn © 2008 Avitech AG – ICAO APAC AMHS Seminar Chennai 15-16 th December 20083

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2005 US Air Force Europe (DoD) – AFTN Gateway

1999 US Army HQ Europe (DoD) – AIS, AFTN, CIDIN

2004 Canada CAA – ANDRS

1997 German CAA - 16 Towers

1996 German Armed Forces (MoD) – AIS, FPL, AFTN, CIDIN, AMHS

2001 German Armed Forces Training Centre – AIS, FPL, AFTN

2001 Poland CAA – AFTN, CIDIN

1997 Slovak CAA – AFTN, CIDIN

2001 Slovak CAA – AIP/MAP

2005 Hungary CAA – AFTN/AMHS

2005 Beijing Tower NCATMB

1997 Italy CAA - CIDIN

2004 Turkish CAA – AFTN, CIDIN

1998 Macao CAA – AIS

2005 German Armed Forces AIP, FLIP, MAP

2001 Hong Kong – AFTN Station

2001 Korea CAA – AFTN,

2004 Saudi Arabia – AIS, AIP, MAP

2003 Greece CAA/Hellenic Armed Forces (MoD) – AIS, FPL, AIP, MAP

2003 German Armed Forces (MoD) – EAD Interface

2005 Tunisia CAA – AFTN/AMHS

2003 Eurocontrol – EAD CIDIN

1998 Canada CAA – AFTN, CIDIN

1997 Canada CAA - AIS

2004 UK Armed Forces (MoD) – AFTN, AIS

1998-2005 German CAA - 16 Towers

2006 Taiwan AIS

2006 Mongolia AIS

2002 Korea CAA – AMHS

2007 Mongolia AIP

2007 Jordan AMHS

2007 Turkish CAA – AMHS

2008 Macao CAA – AIS

AIM – MHS – ATM References


MHS – Message Handling Systems Group

Based on latest ICAO SARPS standards AFTN-CIDIN-AMHS Switches & Gateways Integrated User Terminals with AFTN and/or AMHS P3/P7 protocol Integration of ATN / IPS Routers Turnkey Aeronautical Communication Systems Military Civil ANSP Systems Integration ATN National Networking infrastructure design Seamless Transition Consultancy from AFTN

MHS

Message Handling Systems (ADAMS)


ADAMS™ Overview

ADAMS™ Product Line

ApplicationEntity AFTN

CIDINProtocol Stack

ApplicationEntity OPMET

CIDINDomesticNetworks

AMHS overTCP/IP

AMHS

ATS Message

Server

ATN Internet

in preparation

COTS Products

Legende:

Avitech product

AFTN

Transport Comp

TCP/IP

Transport Comp

ASY Lines

Transport Comp

FAX

Transport Comp

PSTN

Transport Comp

X.25

SystemManagement

ApplicationManagement

NetworkManagement

MessageOrientedServices

Statistics

AMHS Retrieval

Inter-Messaging

AFTN/AMHSGateway

UserStation

AFTNStation

ATS Message

User Agent

AviTerm™

AMHS overTP4/CLNP

Transport Comp

X.29


AFTN – CIDIN – AMHS customers since 1996

Site AFTN serial

AFTN X.25

AFTN X.29

AFTN TCP/IP

AFTN Fax

AFTN custom

CIDIN AMHS IPS

64Kbs

Italy CAA Yes

German Armed Forces Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

NAV CANADA CAA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Navcanada ANDRS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

US Air Force Yes Yes

US Army HQ Europe Yes Yes Yes

UK Armed Forces Yes Yes

EuroControl (EAD) Yes Yes

Turkey DHMI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Rep of South Korea Yes Yes Yes

Slovakia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Poland Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hong Kong Marine Yes

Hungary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Tunisia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Jordan Yes Yes Yes Yes


KAC Korea

Korean CAA

International AFTN/AMHS message switch

AFTN/AMHS Gateway (ICAO SARPs compliance)

First nation-wide AMHS network with fully ICAO SARPs compliance Integrated UA and AFTN terminals

Meets High National Security Standards Off-the-Shelf Hardware, Standard

Software and System-Software components to replace AFTN switch

Implementation without operational disruption

High Availability dual HP Unix configuration with additional server for development, maintenance and testing

Technology Transfer Program

Kimpo

Incheon


Hungary - Budapest COM Centre

AMHS/AFTN ICAO COM Center

5 International connections 80 (existing) national AFTN

users (asynch.) 4 (existing) ITA-2 (UDC) 50 (new) AFTN Stations

(TCP/IP) 50 (new) AMHS UA (in

phases) 4 Monitoring and Control

Positions


Tunis COM Centre (Tunisia)

AMHS/AFTN ICAO COM Centre4 International connections52 (existing) national AFTN user (asynch.)20 (existing) ITA-2 (UDC)40 (new) AFTN Stations (TCP/IP)4 (new) AMHS UA3 iMCPTCP/IP router network for new national COM backbone (12 router) AMHS Test with a t.b.d. neighbour


Jordan AFTN AMHS

AMHS/AFTN ICAO COM Centre Amman4 International connectionsca. 30 (existing) national AFTN user (asynch.)32 (new) AFTN Stations (TCP/IP)32 (new) AMHS User Agents4 Monitoring and Control PositionsAMHS Interoperability Test with Egypt envisaged for Q2/2009


Turkey AMHS/AFTN/CIDIN - Project

AMHS/AFTN/CIDIN Centre in Ankara Esenboga Directory Server in Ankara Esenboga Flight Plan Database in Ankara Esenboga Electronic Flight Strip Display at Adana Airportand Gaziantep Airport AFTN Subscribers AMHS User Agents CIDIN Connections to Rome, Sofia, Athens, Bahrain, Tehran, Ercan (Cyprus)


Deutsche Bundeswehr (Air Force, Army, Navy)

30 Airbases

Integrated AIM MHS terminals

System Command Centre

MIL NOTAM-Office

Flight Planning

Pilot Briefing

eAIP, eMAP, eSDO, eODB, eFLIP

CIDIN/AFTN/AMHS Switch

COM System to other NATO countries

COM System to DFS

First AMHS network world-wide with 40 user agents

Frankfurt

Germany – AFS Coms network BwB


RMA Summary

Avitech maintains a high level of software RMA using the homogenous Software Development V model,

Avitech took an installed base of 6 large operational systems worldwide with a sum of 50 sites and over 400 user working places over 36 months for the RMA evaluation.

Avitech also collected data of hotline calls of last 4 years shows an average of 7 minor software / parameter / SW service related calls per system per year. Average downtime was less then half an hour.

The data collected shows SW availability of approx 99.99912%.


MTS31 MTAs

CIDIN: Common ICAO Data Interchange NetworkMTA. Message Transfer AgentMTCU: Message Transfer & Communication Unit (Access Unit)MTS: Message Transfer System

MTA MTA MTCU

AFTN

AFTN

30 Airbases/Germany

MTCU

AFTNCIDINCIDIN

CIV COM CentreFrankfurt/Germany

MIL MET COMCentre/Germany

US Army/Germany

Germany – AFS– Largest AMHS Reference

AFTN

89 other MIL AFTNUsers (X.25)

At least 2 WPSat each airbase

German Armed Forces ManagedOther Networks/Communication Partners


Technical Specification (SARPs)

Regulatory Provisions Guidance Material

ANNEX 10

Volume III

DigitalCommunication

Systems

ATN: Chapter 3 AMHS: SV III, Section 3.1 AMHS: Part III, Section 6

SV I

SV IXPart V

Part IICAODoc 9705- AN/956ICAO

Edition 1:1998Edition 2: 1999Edition 3: 2002Edition 4: draft

- being replaced by Doc 9880Draft: 2007

DOC 9739 - AN/961

ICAO

Edition 1: 2000Edition 2: open

Delivery initially based on Draft Doc 9705

ANC agreed in December 1997 on Doc 9705

SV: Sub-Volume

And Now to ICAO EUR Docs ICAO EUR Doc 020 – EUR AMHS Manual, Version 3.0, 2008ICAO EUR Doc 021 – ATS Messaging Management Manual, Version 4.0, 2008


Avitech Systems Configuration dual OSI - IPS

ATNRouterATN

Router

AFTNSwitch

CLNP: Connectionless Network ProtocoliMCP: integrated Management & Control PositionMS: Message StoreMTA. Message Transfer AgentMTCU: Message Transfer & Control UniteP3: X.400/P3 ProtocolP7: X.400/P7 ProtocolSFM: Store & Forward Module

UA: User Agent

Legend

ADAMS™

MTAMS

ATN Stack

MTCUAFTNUser

AgentUser

Agent

SFM

iMCP™iMCP™

X.25X.25

TCP/IPASY

DataBase

•Management•Configuration•Routing•Directories/X.500•PDAIs/DLs•Short Term Retention•Long Term Retention•Retrieval

P7P3

TP4/CLNP

TCP/IPTCP/IP

IPRouter

IPRouter


Avitech IPS only solution

AFTNSwitch

CLNP: Connectionless Network ProtocoliMCP: integrated Management & Control PositionMS: Message StoreMTA. Message Transfer AgentMTCU: Message Transfer & Control UniteP3: X.400/P3 ProtocolP7: X.400/P7 ProtocolSFM: Store & Forward Module

UA: User Agent

Legend

ADAMS™

MTAMS

MTCUAFTNUser

AgentUser

Agent

SFM

iMCP™iMCP™

X.25X.25

TCP/IPASY

DataBase

•Management•Configuration•Routing•Directories/X.500•PDAIs/DLs•Short Term Retention•Long Term Retention•Retrieval

P7P3

TCP/IPTCP/IP

IPRouter

IPRouter


AMHSAMHS AIDCAIDC GACS Air-GroundAir-Ground

R

SN

ATN Internet

SN

R

SN

R

Ground-Ground ApplicationsOSI Layers

5 - 6

1 - 4

ATNApplications

Dialogue Service

ATN InternetCommunicationsService

SN ATN Subnetwork

R ATN Router

7

AMHS messaging in ATN environment


Use of IPv6 Network – FIRST Tests

iPAXiPAX

EUR IPv6 test networkEUR IPv6 test network

AFTN/AMHSSwitch

AFTN/AMHSSwitch

AFTN/AMHSSwitch

NAT NAT

NAT

IPv6IPv6 IPv6

IPv6

IPv6IPv6

IPv4IPv4 IPv4

IPv4

IPv4IPv4


Avitech Use of AMC Support


AMC data into X.500 directory of Avitech switch


Use of Look-Up Tables by User Agents


User Terminals – AMHS@AviSuiteTM /AFTN@AviSuiteTM

New common technology developments, customer driven, for both terminal types

Platform independency through Java Web-based and conventional LAN clients Web-start server based client supports roaming users Highly modular and configurable through plug ins Seamless integration into Avitech‘s client software suite Simple integration with existing systems Access protocols: AFTN, MTS and MS access protocol

(P3 and P7) AMHS Avisuite designed to work in X400 IPv4/6 and X.25


User Terminals AviTermTM – AFTN or Aviterm Display


User Terminals AviTermTM – AFTN or AMHS Display


User Terminals – AftnStation

OLD Compliant to Annex 10 Chap II AFTN messaging over asy lines, TCP/IP, X.25, X.29 Templates for ATS messages, CFMU/IFPS messages, NOTAM,

SNOWTAM etc

NEW Flight Plan handling through FlightMonitor function Binary data transport through AFTN messages Standardised AFTN gateway for connecting 3rd Party systems Remote command, upgrade, administration and configuration through

AFTN messages Remote policing of AFTN PC workstations for illegal use. BwB will use these stations operationally and as AMHS back up.


AftnStation – Sample ConfigurationUser Terminals AftnStation – Sample Config

Set of Countries

Flight Monitoring

Notam Messages


User Terminals AftnStation – new possibilities

1.Control, upgrade and admin of remote AFTN workstations by system supervisors using AFTN messages..

2.Possible to distribute binary files via the AFTN network for distributing all kinds of binary and XML data.

3.Possible for administrators to remotely police AFTN workstations for sanity checks, viruses, illegal programs or user activities etc.

4.Provides simple interfacing tool for 3rd party applications using the standard AFTN protocol

5.Provide sophisticated AFTN message processing for Flight Plan processing, Traffic Lists for instance.


Interoperability with other vendors

First Multipartite International Realisation of ICAO SARPs

AMHS Trials


© 2006 Avitech AG

ECG URD, 15.04.97V1.0

CAC, 10.01.02V2.2

Test

Demonstration

Evaluation

Audit

ACCESS Study

ATSMHS InteroperabilityTest Specification

30.09.98, R1.0

AFTN/AMHS ConformanceTest Specification

12.02.99, R1.0

GAT, 14.01.02V0.4

ConformanceTests

InteroperabilityTests

Methods

Test Cases

ECG ITPFeb 2003

InteroperabilityTests

FIRST July 2005

Part 1a: Bilateral Basic Tests

Part 1b: Bilateral Extended Tests

Part 2: Trilateral Network Tests

Requirements

Test Cases

FIRST ANSPs and Manufacturers

AFTN-ATSMHSExtended Test, Network Tests,

Validation

ICAO EUR AFSG

EUR ICAO Doc 020 – EUR AMHS Manual

Appx. E: Interoperability Tests

Interoperability Test Results


AMHS Conformance Testing


Today's presentation

Brief Introduction Avitech Reference Systems OSI /IPS System Solutions Interoperability Testing Conformance Testing Conclusions

Roadmap through the presentation


Conclusions – Migration to AMHS

Careful planning with clear objectives and time plan is essential, Coordinated transition plan for gateways: National and International Early involvement and training of users/operators is very important Early interoperability plans with international partners Reduce Interoperability testing – use the tester Need more operational procedures to be developed by ANSPs/CAAs AMHS is a reality and has been operational since 1996 AMHS implementation should be much further ahead than it is. ATN is ready for delivery using ISO or IPS in dual stack environment TP4/CLNP ISO for the future is very limited. AFTN lives on for the foreseeable future.


Systems in the world(not a scale)

t

AFTNCIDINAMHScoexist

CIDIN

AFTN AMHS

AFTNAMHScoexist

1997 2008/9?today 2015/2020?

•During the “coexisting time” the gateways exist•Engineering, operational concept needs careful consideration•Staff needs migration/transition training•Best practice planning necessary•Operating cost during transition is higher

Migration

AFTN transition to AMHS 1996


Systems in the world(not a scale)

t

AFTNCIDINAMHScoexist

CIDIN

AFTN AMHS

1997 2008/9?

today

2015/2020?

•During the “coexisting time” the gateways exist•Engineering, operational concept needs careful consideration•Staff needs migration/transition training•Best practice planning necessary•Operating cost during transition is higher

Migration

AFTNAMHScoexist

AFTN Tranistion to AMHS 2008


Conclusions

AFTN lives on for many years Avitech continues to strongly support AFTN with new developments Avitech supports the integration of AFTN into the AMHS environment

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