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 and will be participating in CUPPS pilots taking place in 2009. Following the pilots and final definition of the CUPPS technical specifications, UltraCUSE will fully support this new standard.

UltraCUSE^Enterprise

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

• UltraCUSE^Enterprise  - 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

UltraCUSE^Enterprise

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. Most applications perform satisfactorily in ideal conditions however problems tend to arise when devices do not respond as expected or when they are in a status of error (for example, printers out of paper, powered off, paper jams, etc). That is why we pay special attention to tests that stress the performance and behaviour of the application in those conditions. For more information please contact our Certification Manager.

Ultra is currently partnering with  NEC for Enterpise deployments.