Dassault Aviation Designs its Falcon 7X business jet
on a virtual platform made secure
by Bull
Paris,
July
6, 2004 -
To design its future business jet, the Falcon 7X, Dassault Aviation created a "virtual platform" which constitutes a world first in the industrial development of complex systems.
The virtual platform brings together approximately 20 companies and enables more than 1,000 engineers in six different countries to work together at a distance on the detailed design of the aircraft.
The platform's goal is to give Dassault Aviation total and continuous visibility over the design data, in order to avoid big changes or updates that would delay the jet's development.
"Operational since March 2003, this virtual platform could only exist by being based on a trusted infrastructure, declared Jacques Pellas, Dassault Aviation CIO. We selected Bull's offering, which proved its efficiency, in particular during intensive intrusion tests."
Bull optimised the security for the virtual platform architecture by providing two levels of security :
- strong authentication based on smart cards for secure access control to strategic applications via a "business line" portal.
This solution is based on Bull's e-Sentry technology. It consists of a security server together with a public key infrastructure for authentication management.
Security of the authority of certification (AC) is obtained through Bull's Trustway CryptoBox, a hardware security module. The X.509 certificates are stored on smart cards.
- security of the Virtual Private Network (VPN) and of the data exchange between all of the partners involved, through Bull's Trustway.
The applications run in both a Web and Citrix environment.
About Dassault aviation
In the past sixty years, Dassault Aviation has delivered more than 7,500 civil and military aircraft to 75 countries, logging some 20 million hours in flight to date. This vast experience has allowed Dassault Aviation to build up considerable expertise in the design, development, production, sales and support military aircraft (for example, Rafale, Mirage, and Atlantic), Falcon Business Jets and Multi-Role Falcon. Dassault Aviation has staked out a solid reputation as industrial architect for complex airborne
systems. Several key assets underpin this global success: expertise in emerging and strategic technologies; an in-depth understanding of the customer's technical, operational and financial requirements; and a comprehensive systems approach to meet cost, deadline and performance goals.
Dassault Aviation is one of the largest Military Aircraft European Exporters and is the World Leader for Top End Business Jets. Additional information about Dassault Aviation is available at http://www.dassault-aviation.com
About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers, software and services for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. In this respect, Bull's range of NovaScale servers combines the openness of standards with the robustness of mainframes. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications.
Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication, utilities and manufacturing sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.
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