UltraEmulator
Terminal Emulation solutions to enable airlines' access to their host DCSs and other mainframe applications
Key Benefits
- Cost effective solution for host mainframe access from any PC
- Reduces communications costs by employing today's low-cost communication networks
- Easy installation
- Easy and minimal maintenance
Key Features
- UltraEmulator provides access to any airline host mainframe system
- Certified to be used on a variety of vendors' common use platforms (including Ultra's own UltraCUSE)
- Provides a single access point to multiple airline host systems
- Terminal Emulator connects to other vendors' gateways
- Gateway application supports connections from other vendors' applications
- Gateways support deployment at a central location for global access by an airline
- Development kit available
Overview
UltraEmulator consists of airline Terminal Emulation software together with a Gateway. The Emulator software runs at a PC workstation and communicates with the Gateway application using TCP/IP.
UltraEmulator allows any PC to connect over a LAN/WAN to a host mainframe system and to operate like a mainframe terminal, supporting all types of airline printers and firmware. It also provides many additional value-added tools and features, such as an enhanced storage and management of Teletype messages.
Ultra also offers a Developers' SDK (Software Development Kit). This provides an airline the flexibility to develop their own applications with host mainframe connectivity. Airline protocols supported:
- ALC/1024b
- UTS/1024c
- SNA
- AX.25
- TCP/IP
UltraEmulator has been deployed worldwide, and with a wide selection of airline customers and host types, including:
UNISYS (UTS)
- Air China
- LAN
- Lufthansa
IBM (ALC)
- Aer Lingus
- Air Jamaica
- Air Malta
- Alitalia
- British Midland
- Comair
- FlyBe
- Garuda Indonesia
- Gulf Air
- Kuwait
- Mexicana
- Olympic Airways
- Royal Brunei
- Saudia
- Singapore Airways
- Thai Airways
- Varig Brazil
- Virgin Atlantic
- Singapore Airlines
- Delta
