WCA January 2018

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New airport’s cutting-edge cables

❍ The new Istanbul airport

security, police and customs. Each of these systems has required customisation of the cabling including specific colour coding. In total, the number of installed RJ45 ports will exceed 90,000 in the first phase of the project. İGA, the company building the new airport, has designed its mission-critical data centre infrastructure with R&M’s latest products including Netscale, claimed to be the world’s highest-density fibre cable management solution. Given the immense scale of the airport, R&M has also supplied its flagship automated infrastructure management solution, R&MinteliPhy, which centralises and automates the entire cabling infrastructure. This greatly simplifies management and will allow İGA’s IT team to rapidly and conveniently scale the network as needed. R&M states that it is at the forefront of innovation in the structured cabling industry, and invests approximately five per cent of its yearly revenue in R&D. This, combined with the company’s ability to highly customise its extensive product range, proved to be a decisive factor in the success of the project. Mr Riva said that İstanbul New Airport has given the company a great opportunity to deliver its innovative solutions. In total, 45 different R&M products were selected for the project. R&M assigned a dedicated specialist team to be present on-site throughout the deployment of the solutions. R&M (Reichle & De-Massari) AG – Switzerland Website : www.rdm.com

R&M, a global Swiss developer and provider of cabling systems for high-quality network infrastructures, has successfully started the delivery and implementation of a cutting-edge network cabling infrastructure for İstanbul’s new airport. The airport will be constructed over an area of 76.5 million square metres to the north of Istanbul and will be completed in four phases. The first phase will be finalised in 2018 with the opening of two runways and a terminal with 90 million passenger capacity. Once complete, the new airport will host flights to more than 350 destinations with an annual passenger capacity up to 200 million. On completion of all four phases, İstanbul New Airport will have six active runways, 250 aircraft and parking facilities for 18,000 cars. With the increased utilisation and dependence on IT systems in modern air travel, a high-performance cabling network is the critical platform for airport’s entire internal and external telecom- munications plus other operational applications and services. Michel Riva, CEO of R&M, said that İstanbul New Airport is its biggest project in Turkey and one of the largest globally. On completion of the first phase, R&M will have supplied a total length of 4,500 km of copper and over 1,600 km of fibre-optic cables. Leveraging its expertise in large-scale projects for the aviation sector, the manufacturer aims to finish the installation of the cabling infrastructure by the first quarter of 2018. The cabling network will connect and support the key airport systems including its ICT infrastructure for

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