Smart connected airport

Challenge: Improve passenger experience, increase operational efficiency and improve financial success.

Today’s airports handle millions of passengers each year while housing thousands of employees – from air traffic control, to customs, to concessions. To serve their needs, airports must meet not only the highest standards of safety with a smart, mission-critical communications system, but also compete financially by reducing OpEx and attracting new passengers with enhanced broadband services.

Solution: Deploy a converged multi-service mission-critical network for airports

The Nokia mission-critical communications solution for airports features a converged, multiservice network that delivers the highest levels of operational efficiency with just one network to optimize and maintain. And with true broadband access, passengers get enhanced services, such as infotainment. That’s important because, by enabling a better overall customer experience, airports can grow their revenue.

Better passenger experience

Offer attractive and innovative ultra-broadband services to your passengers

Operational excellence

A single platform approach reduces cost of maintaining multiple disparate networks and gets you ready for the future

Financial success

A converged multi-service network allows you the flexibility and capability to develop new business models.

Like small cities, communications is key to airport success, safety, and revenue growth. Whether it's gate-to-gate connectivity, passenger clearance, or baggage processing, airport operators need a solid foundation for building a smart, mission-critical communications system.

The challenges

In a fiercely competitive environment, airport operators need to reduce OpEx while generating revenue by attracting airport tenants with fixed and wireless access, as well as passengers with enhanced broadband services. At the same time, airport operators need to support legacy applications while moving to IP/MPLS and LTE networks - networks that meet the capacity demands for next-generation communications services. And they want to do all this on a single mission-critical, multiservice network, avoiding the costs of siloed networks using multiple technologies run by different managers.

Why Nokia

The Nokia solution for a mission-critical airport communications system meets these challenges and more. With a single, multi-service network that increases efficiencies and reduces costs, operators can remain competitive while offering revenue-enhancing broadband services. For example, our IP/MPLS and LTE networks let operators sell fixed and wireless connectivity to a wide variety of airport tenants, including airlines, retail outlets and ground handlers - in addition to assuring strict segregation of services.

Furthermore, airport operators can also take advantage of our comprehensive, mission-critical portfolio that builds on our innovation at Nokia Bell Labs, as well as our global leadership in IP/MPLS and LTE technology.