vMUSE™

ARINC's leading Multi-User System Environment (MUSE^®) technology allows many airlines to share the same gates and desks through a common workstation, maximizing airport operations efficiency.  Now with ARINC vMUSE™, you can use MUSE in a virtual machine version, which supports simultaneously:

• today’s i MUSE applications
• future common use passenger processing systems (CUPPS) applications
• airlines’ own native applications

With vMUSE, you can also print to standard commercial off-the-shelf Windows printers using plain paper, avoiding the cost of expensive custom printers for boarding passes.

Current ARINC customers using today’s i MUSE Version 2 will be able to upgrade easily to vMUSE. This means airports and airlines can now safely make short-term and medium-term investments in planned implementations and upgrades to i MUSE Version 2, knowing that this will later allow them to also support CUPPS applications when they become available.

Using ARINC’s device abstraction technology and software from VMWare, vMUSE will “virtual-ize” key components such as printers, readers, hardware, and operating systems.  Key concepts and features include the ability to provide application environments (“containers”) to suit the application, emulate various platforms, transform documents among various standard and legacy formats, emulate devices (particularly printers) in the platform rather than depending on device firmware, and migrate between application types without compromising service levels.

The vMUSE architecture consists of two layers: device and platform abstraction. The purpose of platform abstraction is to enable hosting of any application type regardless of its platform dependencies. The purpose of device abstraction is to promote the use of standard, lower-cost peripheral devices while insulating customer applications from any changes.