Many vendors stop supporting older WAN technologies. The operational costs for proprietary connections dramatically increase. The vendors reduce their skilled personnel and solely invest in IP based technologies.
In order to keep the necessary communication paths, enterprises are forced to migrate their existing infrastructure to TCP/IP enabled systems.
The migration to IP affords a direct benefit by reducing the operational costs and simplifies the pricing model. Contrary to the character based pricing models for X.25 connections, IP connections will be charged as monthly fixed price based on the agreed bandwidth.
Indirectly the migration to IP offers all features and advantages of this state-of-the-art communication technology and enables a communication to standard TCP/IP based systems.
Lufthansa Systems has varied experience in the migration of legacy systems and networks into the TCP/IP world.
We also have a specific Traffic Gateway solution: The Lufthansa Systems Traffic Gateway is based on OMSE (Open Message Switching Engine). This translates legacy application protocols to current TCP/IP protocol standards, such as MATIP. Legacy systems include both Unisys and IBM systems for reservations and departure control, GDS’ and airport operations.