Check-in counter CUPPS

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An airport’s universal goal is to provide passengers with a free-flowing journey in a cost-efficient way. The Common Use Passenger Processing System offers asset optimization, greater flexibility and reduced passenger processing times. With IPS Agent – the Materna IPS CUPPS solution – we provide airports with capabilities of sharing the same equipment regardless of the airline. By offering a flexible, multi-access, common use platform for airport check-in counters, boarding gates, sales desks and back office positions, IPS Agent ensures integrity and usability and meets requirements of airports around the world. CUPPS as the only agent facing common use standard, enables an airline to process passengers using the same application on any CUPPS provider’s platform, eliminating the need to maintain multiple terminal emulator applications and therefore reducing overall operating costs. The system is fully scalable and can support any number of workstations distributed over local, airport campus, or wide area networks. It therefore offers great flexibility and agility in terms of its usage range. CUPPS workstations operate independently of each other. Therefore, two workstations at the same gate counter can access two or more different hosts simultaneously. This multi-access offers an optimized utilization of the equipment. All user access is secured by authentication and authorization employing common industry best practices and the utilization of active directory. The solution consists of Windows-based thin client devices and a virtualized environment which reduces the need for on-site hardware equipment.