Product Name    TRANSMET - The Automatic Message Switching System Cluster

Main purpose
To receive, check and forward automatically, meteorological data and products according to the WMO standards.

For Who ?
All National Meteorological Serices including Regional Telecommunication Hubs (RTH)

Your benefits
Beating heart of your systems
The Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS) is the central element in a high technology meteorological environment, and the heart of meteorological telecommunication.
• Interconnection of meteorological devices, share data product internaly and with the meteorological world.
• Developped by Météo-France (Toulouse-RTH) to be easily configurable and upgradable
• Designed to take into consideration future WMO standards and particularly WIS.

System's advantages
TRANSMET is fully compliant with all applicable protocols, procedures, regulations, and standards including WMO386.
TRANSMET is a reliable, upgradable solution operated daily since more than 10 years by several Regional Telecommunication Hubs (RTH) and major National Meteorological Services
TRANSMET manages 160 channels and switches more than 8 gigas of data a day, without any interuption since 1998 at Météo-France in Toulouse


Main Functions

Specific functionalities
• Hot / Stand-by servers solution
• WMO, special MTN & AGM monitorings
• Automatic message answer and request
• Fast and flexible conversion module (.pdf, .jpeg, .bmp, .tiff,...)
• Message editing tools with templates
• Message retrieval and retransmission according to selected parameters (time, datatype, ...)
• Access all system information such as transmitted messages, received messages, channels statistics, ...
• Automatic feeding of climatological database, forecasting workstations, etc.
• Mail facilities between TRANSMET users.



Reliability and performances
• Linux combines power, relaibility and stability
• In our technical headquarters, TRANSMET manages 160 channels and switches more than 8 gigas of data a day, without any interuption since 1998.

Proactive diagnostic and resolution
Unique system of dynamic reaction to exceptionnal system events
• Self-diagnosing, self-monitoring hardware
• Software monitoring and problem detection
• Automatic reaction for solving failure.

System diagnostic
• Automanagement, autoanalyse and autodiagnostic system
• Automatical switch to security/clone system
• UPS automatic diagnosis ability for electricity failure
• Every error and reaction logged in files for complete analyse
• On-line alarms



Line diagnostic
• TRANSMET checks communications and arranges rerouting of traffic in case of lines difficulties
• Automatic message backed-up when destination can’t be reach, and reemission when line is on

Message diagnostic
• All corrupted messages ared stored to be corrected with helpful indications for correction
• Defines for each message the analysis method (header, syntaxic analyse, ...)

Online upgrade & maintenance
• Designed to be configured and updated remotely by our support service
• Designed to be upgraded and modified while system remains operational.
• Ability to add or delete lines without affecting current operations




Thanks to TRANSMET...
• Expertise, design and deploy the reliable and secure solution you require.
• Get state-of-the-art technology based meteorological solutions fully benefiting from the latest innovations.
• Take advantage of a constantly improved system used by one of the largest RTH of the GTS
• Get a systems fully compliant with all applicable protocols, procedures, regulations, and
standards including WMO 386 abbreviated heading reference table
• Make WIS (WMO Information System) a reality for your National Met Service
Technical Specifications
Communication interfaces
• Newly designed Web browser interface management
• TRANSMET handles all kind of WMO data required by a National Met Service
• TRANSMETsupports all kind of interfaces including:
— Asynchronous lines (leased line, dial-up) at any standard speed
— Telegraphic lines
— TCP/IP FTP based communications (last WMO standards compliant)
— TCP/IP socket based connections
— AFTN/ICAO interface
— Point-to-point X25 connections (PVC/SCV)
— RETIM 2000, MDD, MSG, SADIS, ISCS satellite emission / reception
— Automatic email, fax and printer connectivity
— Easy interface to your own software development.

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