Ubimex is IDS AirNav’s field tested and proven Air Traffic Service (ATS) Message Handling System (AMHS). While AMHS technology is relatively new to the field of air traffic management, IDS AirNav has extensive experience in the underlying X.400 technologies having deployed numerous X.400 message switches around the world. The result of these years of experience is an AMHS system that is both feature-packed and highly reliable.

Ubimex consists of 5 core components:

    Message Transfer Agent (ubiMTA): Provides the core message switching and AMHS communications of Ubimex
    Message Store (ubiMS): A robust database for short and long-term message storage
    Access Unit (ubiAU): Provides bidirectional protocol/message/address conversion between AMHS and a number of different standards
    Directory Services (ubiDS): An x.500 directory service that contains information about AMHS entities and makes it available to the AMHS community
    User Agent (Ubimex Web): A secure web-based portal through which both operator and administrator users can perform all the functions of AMHS

Ubimex Web also provides operators with an integrated environment for AMHS and AFTN messaging modeled after popular email applications such as Microsoft’s Outlook Web Client and Google’s Gmail. In addition, it allows system administrators to configure, maintain and monitor AMHS operations using a graphical user interface.

UBIMEX – MAIN APPLICATIONS

ICAO introduced AMHS (or ATSMHS – Air Traffic Service Message Handling System) in the early 2000s to replace the aging and limited AFTN technology previously in use. AMHS allows data such as flight plans, meteorological data and NOTAMs to be transmitted at high data rates between ground-ground users, primarily Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) but also airports, air forces and meteorological services.

CERTIFICATION
Successful passing of the EUROCONTROL Conformance Test Plan (ICAO EUR Doc 020, EUR AMHS Manual, Appendix D)