For five years now, “operational services” has ensured that systems run smoothly at Frankfurt Airport. The joint venture between Fraport and T-Systems provides data center services for one of the world’s most important air traffic hubs. Almost unnoticed by passengers, information and communication technology guides them through from their arrival at the airport right into the airplane, whether drawing a parking ticket from the barrier to the parking garage, checking the flight information displays to find their way to the gate, having their boarding pass automatically read by the boarding pass scanner, or watching Airport TV to while away the time until boarding.

The systems run from the high-security data center at the airport. The building has multiple layers of security to protect against unauthorized access and is also monitored by more than 40 cameras. In order to ensure flight operations at all times, the airport’s most important control programs are run in parallel in a second data center. Over 140 terabytes of storage is available for data backups, which in printouts would use the paper of some seven million trees.

Other services in Frankfurt include the planning of take-off and landing slots together with air traffic control, information systems such as the display boards in the departure lounges, surveillance systems for critical areas, but also IT-controlled use of apron vehicles and the operation of LAN/WLAN networks.

With its 51 million passengers and over two million metric tons of freight a year, Frankfurt Airport is one of the three largest air traffic hubs in Europe. Internationally, Frankfurt ranks among the top ten in the world.

In addition to Frankfurt Airport, T-Systems’ customers include Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, Aeroporti di Roma and Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Today, one out of every five of the world’s largest international airports with 25 million passengers annually uses airport solutions and services by T-Systems.

For more information on T-Systems’ airport solutions, please see
http://www.telekom.com/dtag/cms/content/dt/de/812666

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