UltraCUSE & UltraCUSE Enterprise

A complete Common Use Solution

Incorporates an agent-facing platform and fully supports passenger-facing kiosks.

IATA CUPPS Support

Ultra are active participants in the IATA CUPPS initiative. The UltraCUSE platform is CUPPS compliant and certified to the latest available CUPPS Technical Specification.

UltraCUSEEnterprise

Ultra is innovating delivery of Common Use solutions by using thin-client devices and VMware technology.

Key benefits

  • Optimises use of check-in facilities offering greater flexibility
  • Easy access to all airline and airport applications
  • Easy integration onto the platform
  • Free-of-charge application certification
  • Delivers improved levels of service across airport
  • Reduces airport and airline operational costs
  • Provision of robust and reliable solution
  • Proven managed service provision

Key features

Can be provided as a fully managed service

  • UltraCUSEEnterprise  - our hosted UltraCUSE Common Use in a new model - “Software as a Service” (SaaS)
  • Can be provided as a fully managed service
  • Allows multiple carriers to access their own systems on a Common Use platform
  • Is deployed using industry standard technologies
  • Supports an airline's own applications
  • UltraCUSE can be delivered with our other airport operational, passenger processing and ground handling systems
  • Supports airline industry printers and low-cost peripherals
  • Secure environment
  • Support for IATA CUPPS

Overview

UltraCUSE allows many airlines to share the same workstations and peripherals, maximising efficient use of airport resources. It is scalable to any number of workstations distributed over local or wide area networks, and includes quick and easy remote deployment at locations such as downtown check-in, hotels and rail stations. UltraCUSE provides a low-cost platform for supporting such systems as:

  • Passenger processing applications e.g. an airline’s own applications for accessing their host departure and checkin systems, or a Local DCS such as Ultra’s own UltraDCS solution
  • Customer facing applications such as CUSS Kiosks which will support internet check-in
  • Back office airline and airport applications such as baggage tracking, resource management, catering, flight operations, maintenance and weather
  • Security and government agencies, logistics and cargo businesses, and point of sale applications used by airport tenants

UltraCUSEEnterprise

This represents a move for Common Use into a SaaS (Software as a Service) model, allowing rapid deployment of new platforms at entire airports. This hosted service delivers significant advantages going forwards: total cost of ownership is driven down owing to ease of deployment, management and support, and energy costs themselves are significantly reduced via use of thin-client devices.

Certification
Ultra's certification process tests the conformity of your application with our platform. We provide certification facilities free of charge and our engineers are at hand to support application vendors during development phase and in preparation for certification. Ultra currently operates two certification labs, one in Manchester, UK and one in Raleigh-Durham, NC thus providing additional choice to airlines and application vendors in terms of travel and accommodation arrangements.

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