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Nexus for Airports is a multi-tier, multi-user, multi- lingual software system which provides background services and interfaces to configure, manage, operate, and monitor the Flight Information Display System. The solution is designed and implemented by using cutting edge technologies to obtain robustness, extendibility and usability.

The system is hardware and operating system agnostic. Although, it can be installed on top of any operating system, where a Java EE 6 compliant application server can be installed, we suggest using a clustered Linux server system where possible to avoid licensing fees. The nodes of the cluster should have similar capacities with at least 4 GB of system memory and mirrored internal storage of at least 20 GB capacity. Depending on the number of monitors and amount of air traffic these figures should be adjusted to the actual needs. Customers may decide to incorporate external storage server to increase high availability level.

The system is designed to ease customization. Localization of the system can be easily reached by localizing properties files and creating and using custom vocabulary by means of database tables reachable through the management module. Users can change the language used for management interface on the fly. Turkish and English languages supported as standard whereas other languages can be easily adopted by using above-mentioned mechanisms. Any language supported by Unicode standard can be used.

System management interface is web based instead of web enabled. Which means it is designed and implemented to be used through a web browser. The only limitation is Adobe Flash Player plugin, which should be installed to run the Rich Internet Application inside web browser. Management workstation can be Windows based as well as Linux or MacOSX. Any computer on the network can be used as management workstation. There is no need to dedicate a computer as management workstation. Screen resolution of the management workstation should be at least 1366x768 pixels.

Users are free to create unlimited number of airlines, airports and flights both seasonal and charter. Seasonal flight definitions are used as a template to create flights automatically. Code shared flights can also be created using the same definition interface.

Access control of the system is role based. Administrators can create as many users and roles necessary with different capabilities. Administrators can also define new resources, devices and device groups. Device groups are used to display multipage lists of flights for arrivals and departures.

Monitors on the network can be fully managed by using latest Intel vPro enabled controllers.

The system can be integrated with external systems like CUPPS, AODB, and AFTN etc. by using mechanisms supplied by Application Server Framework.