Networked air traffic: In 2010, T-Systems is soaring with airport solutions for major international airports

At German airports alone about 9,000 aircraft take off and land daily. The more efficiently and the more performantly planes and passengers are handled, the quicker the planes are back in the air. This ensures the airports' economic success as well as airline and passenger satisfaction. This requires two things: ICT support systems as well as airports and airlines that are networked globally. T-Systems develops solutions to coordinate and automatically control ground operations, including external service providers - baggage transporters, vehicles used for refueling, caterers, etc.

Central databases for Berlin-Brandenburg

The new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport - Europe's biggest airport building project - opens in 2011 with a capacity of up to 27 million passengers annually.

In addition to setting up the network and large parts of the IT infrastructure for the airport in the German capital, T-Systems was commissioned to implement the new traffic control systems. These bring current and consistent information to the whole airport staff through to the traffic control center as well as to the passengers, people picking up visitors, and visitors. In the Airport Control Center, the geographic information system provides employees with an overview of all processing stations from the landing approach to take off as well as on the airport premises and can smoothly coordinate these stations in the Resource Management System (RMS).

The solution also includes the airport database AODB (Airport Operational Database). This is of central importance, because as the "airport's brain," it processes information from all operational applications - also from the partner systems of other airports - as well as from users and forwards the individually processed information to connected systems as a basis for decision-making. This includes, among other things, applications for air traffic control, the airlines and the dispatchers.

Hosted real-time flight information for Swedish airports 

Swedavia, formerly known as LFV, is the Swedish airport operator owning and operating 14 airports all over Sweden. Since 2007, Svedavia uses T-Systems' Flight Information Display System (FIDS) at Göteborg-Landvetter Airport. As part of a system harmonization strategy, Swedavia is currently successively upgrading most of its other airports to this state-of-the-art FIDS solution. As platform for this upgrade, T-Systems has successfully provided the centrally hosted FIDS software platform. The system provides the various display units at the airports with real-time information for passengers and airport personnel. Features at the various airports such as support for different processes, presentations, layouts and display types will thereby be individually taken into consideration for each connected airport. Via an integrated web solution, information can be retrieved online e.g. about current arrival times at the airport. In Malmö, Sweden's third largest airport, the rollout already took place in June 2010. The application is centrally operated on the servers at Swedavia's data center in Stockholm.

52 airports worldwide use solutions by T-Systems 

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. They cover almost all areas that are important for smooth airport management - from passenger, luggage and freight control to the global collaboration of all parties involved in airport processes. The ICT service provider also offers simulation tools to conduct three-dimensional analyses of the effects of various scenarios such as structural changes, additional passenger volume and emergencies.

In addition, Fraport, Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt and also a user of operational airport systems by T-Systems, has completely outsourced parts of its IT infrastructure to T-Systems, just as Aeroporti di Roma did, the operator of Rome's two airports. In addition to airport applications, the ICT service provider also supervises SAP applications and the website for the Italians. For Moscow's Scheremetjewo Airport, the systems business arm also implemented a billing solution based on SAP. The project was concluded in March 2010.

About Deutsche Telekom AG

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 151 million mobile customers, over 38 million fixed-network lines and more than 15 million broadband lines. The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in over 50 countries and has around 260,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 64.6 billion in the 2009 financial year – almost half of it outside Germany. (As of December 31, 2009).

About T-Systems

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customers arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 45,300 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around EUR 8.8 billion in the 2009 financial year.