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n Compliance with ICAO standards. MESSIR-AFTN is compliant with the Annex 10 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation and with the Manual on the Planning and Engineering of the AFTN.
n Large installed base world wide. MESSIR-AFTN is off-the-shelf. Within the last fifteen years, MESSIR-AFTN systems have been successfully installed in numerous countries such as France (Seven sites from 2001 to 2007), Greece (New Athens Int'l Airport, 2000), Africa (10 ASECNA-members countries) 2007, Irak (2003), Greece (Six sites, 1998/1999/2002), Jordan (1997), Sri-Lanka (2000) Bangladesh (1997), Kenya (1996), Suriname (1995).
n Most powerful AFTN Switch of the market. MESSIR-AFTN is the only AFTN Message Switching System which can show in a demo a power of more than 500 messages processed per second.
n Most reliable AFTN switch of the market. MESSIR-AFTN remains operational for years, round the clock, without any down-time. MESSIR-AFTN offers a nearly 100% site-proven availability (unavailability over one year hardly sums up to five minutes).
n Ease of use. This is owed to the great attention paid by COROBOR to users’ needs. MESSIR-AFTN ease of use is outstanding for daily operations as well as for administration tasks.
n NOTAM-AIS functions. Aside from standard message switching functions, MESSIR-AFTN also offers options for the implementation of integrated briefing including NOTAM pre-flight briefing, Meteorological briefing (Flight folders) automatically prepared upon Flight plans (FPL) reception
n Hot stand-by architecture with immediate change-over and no down-time. The MESSIR-AFTN hot stand-by architecture comprises two identical servers (the pilot and the stand-by) as well as an automatic changeover mechanism. Changing over from pilot to stand-by is automatic (or on request) and immediate. The stand-by server is permanently updated, in real time, with the data received by the pilot. There is no need to restart, reboot or reinitialize the application on the stand-by.
n Readiness for AMHS. MESSIR-AFTN AMHS Gateway allows for both sending messages over the AMHS network and receiving message from AMHS network. MESSIR-AFTN uses an X.400 P3 API (Application Programming Interface) to communicate and exchange messages with other AMHS systems
n Numerous options and connection capabilities. The powerful COROBOR software development team is available for any required customization and specific developments.
7 MESSIR-AFTN switches for French Civil Aviation (STNA)
France overseas territories airports now benefit from MESSIR-AFTN Message Switching System unfailing services. This large MESSIR-AFTN deployment ended in 2007 with the installation on the Caribbean island of “Martinique”.
French STNA staff around MESSIR cabinet
8 MESSIR-AFTN switches for ASECNA (2007/2008)
For safe and modern AFTN telecommunications, ASECNA (AGENCY FOR AIR NAVIGATION SAFETY IN AFRICA ) entrusted COROBOR for deploying MESSIR-AFTN Message Switching System in the following countries : Senegal, Niger, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic
ASECNA has now became a strategic partner along the numerous and successful projects
deployed these last year including Dakar OPMET database, SADIS and AFTN terminal systems for all ASECNA members states.
MESSIR-AFTN supervision positions dispatched on airport
