Nextjet Connect—Hosted Data Services and Messaging Network

Nextjet has packaged its extensive data services and messaging network, Nextjet Connect, into a hosted service, enabling users to receive real-time updates on the status of their shipment via email, web or automated voice means. Through Nextjet Connect, customers gain access to automated shipment tendering and status notifications with over 2,000 existing carriers. Nextjet Connect users can interface to this carrier network directly through the Nextjet Transportation Management System or through their existing TMS application.

Over 3.5 million messages move through the Nextjet Connect network on a daily basis. Nextjet has structured unique ties into scheduled transportation event monitoring networks, including:

• U.S.Air Traffic Control System
• Air cargo airbill status systems
• Truckload carriers
• LTL carriers
• Parcel Express carriers
• Greyhound® bus network
• Rail lines
• Ocean lines

Through the device-agnostic deployment model of the Nextjet dispatching system, participating carriers and independent contractors need only a cell phone or web access to accept shipments and feed updates into Nextjet Connect. Therefore, real-time event level status updates run through the Nextjet system, which then channels the shipment level update to the user and their shipping customers via email, automated phone, or web based notifications.

Clients subscribe to the Nextjet Connect service on a monthly basis. Included in their subscription are data feeds, geo-data, spatial services, and notifications from:

• TransDecisions or ESRI GIS
• Tele-Atlas North America Geo-Data
• NavTech Geo-Data
• DMTI/GDT Geo-Data
• PC Miler
• Innovata Flight Schedule Feed
• ASDI Air Traffic Control Feed
• SITA Airbill Status Feed
• Voxeo Voice Notification Service