AAP Information Services
AAP Information Services has five company areas. They are AAP Media, AAP Corporate and AAP Financial Markets Services, AAP Racing and AAP Editorial.
AAP Media
This part of the companys business is supply of information to the Regional and Local Newspapers, Television stations and Radio.
These unit are connected to a 2400 bps Telsra DNS circuit. AAP is able to select the type of stories relatavant to the client an strip this the information from the multiplex news wire and is then feed into their system for the local journalist to use in the paper, or on Air.
AAP Corporate
This part of the company resells the information collected by AAP Editorial and delivers the information to AAP commerical.AAPs own product ranges
News
The electronic newspaper Flak Fury - later known as Newstrack, Newstrack plus.
Newstrack was used in company PR areas as well as in corporate centres in Queensland. The area that the product was exposed at was the Golden Wing Lounge at Brisbanes Demostic Airport. You will note the Public Access keyboard.
Newscan
News in your hotel or business area.
Travelnet
For the traveler - Travelnet (aircraft arrivials and departures). This equipment was also used by the couriers around brisbane. The companies were Yellow Cabs, Hughes Cars and TNT Air Couriers.
AAP Racing
AAP Racing has one of the largest data bases in Australia with horse racing results.The company has been supplying the Newspapers the horse form guide and to the punter a product called Fast Form.
Web base products
Web based products are Newscentre, MediaNet, NewsCast, NewsClip and AAP Racing Centre.Newscentre
Browser based product with the information being hosted in America
Eclipse
Press clipping service. Information gathered from local and regional newspapers and presented in PDF files
AAP Medianet.
Medianet client wanting to forward a fax document to his clients in Queensland, can use fax messenger or a web based delivery system.Fax Messenger
If FAX Messenger programme is used the client forwards to Sydney their information. High speed data lines are used to transfer their information to the Brisbane CMC Faxswitch. The switch then activates modem connections using the E1 interface to AAPT to dial locally into Brisbane or Queensland. The FAX switch is located in the AAPIS communication room on L27 at Riverside.
AAP Financial Markets Services
AAP sole Salesman in Brisbane was Clark Chappel. The products available were MultiQuote 2000, Australian Market Quote (AMQ), Mobile Data, Winframe AMQ and Data feeds.AMQ
The first generation of the AMQ product was a one way service. The signal was delivered via SDS, MDS or Datel modems. The AMQ verisons 4 and 5. The network verison of AMQ used Artisoft "Lantastic" netbios with up to 10 workstations.
Two way services
The introduction of two way services gave the client the opportunity to recieve depth of Market and Historical information.For the Brisbane area, concentrators were installed in the communication room on the 7th floor of Riverside. In the racks were installed Intel 486 Panthers (with 8 meg of ram using OS2 software and internal router card and 10Base2 network) and Decrouters 200 for the serial connection to the Telstra modem 9k6 bps. Digital pathworks software was used for communications to Glebe Sydney.
In the field
The server base PC used a Windows NT3.5 and then NT3.51 operating system and workstations were Mircrosoft Windows 3.0 and later windows 3.11 using the TCP/IP protocol.AMQ by Winframe
Some of the sites tried using ICA winframe protocol to deliver the AMQ product. The AMQ product was built for LAN circuits so when it was tried on a WAN (wide area network), the way it structured caused heavy traffic loading on client networks. Some clients took a winframe solution to allow there remote offices to get depth of Market and Customer Id trading. The client that tried this method were Lance Jone, Henderson Charlton using ICA (TCP/IP protocol) and also Nevitts who tried using ICA (IPX protocol). In Brisbane, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) was set up between AAPIS, AAPT and Henderson offices in Northern Queensland. This require a winframe server in the communications room, router connection to the AAPT widearea network of which Henderson Chartons were a client and then using the clients local PCs in the remote offices with ICA TCP/IP protocol to recover the information.
Dialup AMQ Winframe
As the Internet became more accessable to remote locations, AAP FMS moved the remote Stock Brokers to there local Internet Service Providers (ISP) . The Winframe server were located in Glebe, Sydney.AMQ Hardware
AMQ Hardware
Smartpage
Paging system which could supply you with the up to the minute Precious metal, All Ords etc
Smartpage users guide.
Leather case accessory with your smartpage.
Mobile Data
Mobile Data was a system that took the AMQ data and using Telstra mobile systems and a Motorola receiver, gave the client continuous information into his laptop or PC where ever the Telstra network would allow.
Modem and large antenna for sites with low signal strength. (Picture supplied by Con in S.A.)
