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Canada’s First Common-Use Passenger Processing System Implemented

March 21, 2012
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Ultra Electronics, Airport Systems this month announced it has completed implementation of Canada’s first Common-Use Passenger Processing System (CUPPS) at St. John’s International Airport, Canada.

Common-Use Passenger Processing System

Common-Use Passenger Processing System

The deployment of a fully virtualized client/server solution will provide a variety of efficiencies and advantages including lower energy costs, improved maintenance and less dependency on traditional PC’s.St. John’s International Airport is experiencing rapid growth as passenger traffic has doubled since the airport was privatized in 1998; a rate that is double the national average in Canada.

Common-Use Passenger Processing Systems are offered by a range of suppliers. ARINC, one such supplier, says “the cost savings of running multiple workstation operating systems on servers in the cloud versus traditional, on-site servers range between 50% and 70%”.

The ARINC product, vMUSE, is said to allow users to realize space savings, power savings, and reduced up-front capital costs as well as lower operation and maintenance costs due to the near elimination of on-site infrastructure. Despite the savings in cost, vMUSE Enterprise delivers the same common-use capabilities as full-size, server-based terminal installations of CUTE systems.

For more information please visit: www.vmuse-enterprise.com

ARINC vMUSE at Berlin Brandenburg Airport

February 4, 2012
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ARINC vMUSE Airport Common Use Systems

ARINC vMUSE Airport Common Use Systems

 

This week we wanted to look at the ARINC vMUSE product. We heard in January that ARINC won a contract with Bradenburg contract in Berlin to supply and install the passenger check-in and departure systems for 31 airlines and handling agents, with capacity for 27 million passengers each year, with room for further expansion.
ARINC will install its common use passenger processing system (CUPPS) – vMUSE ¬– as well as its BagLink baggage information distribution system. vMUSE includes self-service kiosks and baggage drops.
 
54 workstations have already been implemented on a live test environment, the hardware installation is expected to be completed in February, and at full operation ARINC will have rolled out vMUSE on 153 workstations for check-in and back office desks, and on 188 boarding gate workstations.
ARINC have also installed its AviNet Airport service at the gateway, allowing for airlines to connect to the host systems immediately.
vMUSE Enterprise, the latest version of ARINC’s well-known MUSE® (Multi-User System Environment) common use platform, combines the security and reliability of vMUSE with advanced virtualisation technology to provide seamless, multi-airline check-in without having to install and manage on-site servers and platform software. This puts the power of common use systems within reach of airports and airlines whose passenger volumes may be too small to justify the investment in traditional CUTE (Common Use Terminal Equipment) infrastructure.

For more information please visit vmuse-enterprise.com.