The AMHS Courses

The AMHS Courses typically contain the following:

AMHS Introduction - Day 1

The early parts of these courses will be of interest to all those who may get involved in AMHS, including Users and Administrators.

1. AMHS and AFTN Background - What is AMHS?
2. Rationale - Why is AMHS necessary?
3. Users - Who will use it?
4. AMHS Traffic - What information does it carry?
5. AMHS and other related messaging systems - AFTN, SITA, ARINC, Military, Meteorological  ...
6. AMHS and AFTN Co-existence
7. Information Models of Messages and Reports
8. Functional Models - Systems Architecture
9. AMHS Use of Data Networks
10. AMHS Management Domains - Organisation and Addressing
11. MTS Functions - Functions and Facilities provided by AMHS - 'Elements of Service'
12. AMHS and MHS Functional Subsets, The base standards - X.400 and ISO/IEC 10021, ICAO 9795 and Functional Profiles. Implementation levels - basic and extended AMHS
13. Distribution Lists
14. Message Routing
15. AMHS implementation activities and Marketplace

AMHS Continued - Day 2

1. AMHS use of the ATN Directory
2. Message Security
3. Other MTS Functions
4. The AMHS<>AFTN Gateway mappings
5. Mapping AMHS Messages, Probes and Reports to the AFTN
6. Overall AMHS<>AFTN Protocol Interchanges
7. AFTN<>AMHS Address mappings
8. The Inter-Personal Messaging Service used for AMHS
9. The Message Store Architecture and Operation
10. Supporting Technologies - ASN.1, Security and PKI, The ATN Directory

Focus on AMHS Implementation - Day 3

These modules will be of interest to those responsible for planning, procuring, installing and operating AMHS systems.

1. Project initiation
2. AMHS Implementation Plans
3. AMHS Global and Regional Designs
4. The European SPACE Project - a regional design example
5. ANSP Internal AMHS Designs
6. Specifying AMHS Fuctionality
7. Determining the MTS Architecture
8. Procurement Specifications
9. The AMHS Market and Products
10. Installation, Testing and Changeover from AFTN
11. ANSP internal management tasks
12. Regional and ANSP-Internal management tools

Debrief- Day 3

Interactive classroom excercises in designing an AMHS system for a State/Region.

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