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Data Exchange Service for Deutsche Lufthansa

The Data Exchange Service (DES) is a mission-critical AODB for Deutsche Lufthansa which connects central systems of the company with airports, local service providers and decentralized disposition systems. DES takes over the communication as well as the integration of different data (flight events, ground events, ...) from several companies each with their own point of view.

 

Overview of the systems landscape

DES systems landscape

Challenge

  • Connection of more than 70 applications from more than 15 organizations (and indirectly to 25 other organizations)
  • More than 170 modules in a 7-day/24-hour operation with an availability > 99,995% ( Dec. 2006)
  • 500.000 transactions daily, 2.500.000 published telegrams
  • In line with standard protocols (CORBA, XML, ...) and standard formats (SSIM, SSM, ASM, ...) - and a variety of proprietary interfaces
  • DES has been in operation for 10 years now

Technology

  • A:Hub
  • J2EE
  • Oracle 9i
  • SunSoft Solaris, Veritas

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