Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) announced extending end-to-end managed services contract with Nortel for another three years.

“Over the past year, the airport has handled 8.7 million passengers and over 120,000 aircraft movements. By managing our critical networks, Nortel has relieved us of our network concerns and has made it possible for BIAL to focus its valuable resources on managing our core aviation business, rather than our voice and data networks,” said Marcel Hungerbuehler, CEO, BIAL.

BIAL leases the communications infrastructure supporting voice as well as data services to its various tenants, including airlines, restaurants, cargo handlers and other groups which manage their own, round-the-clock operational applications.

“We need to give secure network access to each of our tenants, so we run separate virtual local area networks (LANs) for them. Nortel manages these networks remotely and ensures they are secure at all times,” said S. Francis Rajan, Head-ICT, BIAL. “The network design ensures that all the different tenants at BIAL are isolated and secure from each other, even though they share the same physical infrastructure.”