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R&M implements network cabling for Istanbul
New Airport
R
&M is implementing network cabling
for the new Istanbul Airport, the largest
airport in the world, for IGA. We speak to
Suleyman Tokmak, Managing Director, R&M
Turkey, who tells us more about the project.
Istanbul New 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 a 90 million passenger
capacity. Once complete, the new airport will
host flights to more than 350 destinations
with an annual passenger capacity of up to
200 million.
On completion of all four phases, Istanbul
New Airport will have six active runways, 250
aircraft slots and parking facilities for 25,000
cars. Thus, Istanbul will continue to be a
major hub at the intersection of Asia, Europe
and the Middle East.
R&M is a major technology partner in
enabling digital connectivity for systems
at this new airport. The R&M high-density
fibre platform, Netscale, the automated
infrastructure management solution,
R&MinteliPhy, and the 5U ODF (Optical
Distribution Frame) are at the core of the
airport’s communications platform.
Each of the systems has required
customisation of the cabling, including
specific colour coding. R&M was chosen
as a partner for this project because it
demonstrated extensive expertise in large-
scale projects for the aviation sector.
Istanbul New Airport
The cabling system is designed for a
lifetime of 25 years with unconditional
reliability. R&M is confident in the
unmatched Swiss product quality and is
offering its 25-year R&Mfreenet systems
warranty on the cabling infrastructure.
For the first phase, R&M has supplied a
total length of 4,500km of copper and over
1,600km of fibre optic cables.
Additionally, around 90,000 RJ45 ports have
been provisioned. This network connects and
supports key airport systems.
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Tüpras supports early stage entrepreneurs
through acceleration programme
A
s a leader in Turkey’s energy industry,
Tüpraş has become a strategic partner in
the ‘New Ideas New Businesses’ acceleration
programme in 2018. Tüpraş is involved in the
programme in line with its aim to integrate
with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Levent Zağra, Assistant General Manager
for Investment and Planning at Tüpraş,
said that the company strives to support
the entrepreneurship ecosystem and
innovative ideas while maintaining their
intrapreneurship efforts. He also added:
“We aim to contribute to the development
of this ecosystem and support early-stage
entrepreneurs with the benefit of our
experience and know-how. Within our
‘New Ideas New Businesses’ acceleration
programme, we have contributed to training
sessions to monitor the transformation
of ideas and provided mentorship to
entrepreneurs. We have actively involved
ourselves in every stage of the selection
process. We believe that the programme will
cultivate new entrepreneurs who will be able
to cooperate with us and contribute greatly
to the ecosystem.”
New ideas, new businesses: Turkey’s
first and largest technology focused
entrepreneurship programme
The ‘New Ideas New Businesses’
acceleration programme (YFYI), organised
www.intelligentcio.com
by the ODTÜ TEKNOKENT, is Turkey’s
first and largest technology focused
entrepreneurship programme. The YFYI has
contributed to the commercialisation of
more than 200 business ideas and added
1,000 new jobs. Aside from undergraduate,
graduate and PhD students, technology
companies from 0 up to 36 months can
participate to the YFYİ process.
Fifty-five entrepreneur teams took part in
the YFYI, which was held for the 14th time
this year. The programme provided over
1,000 hours of training and mentoring
to the entrepreneurs. Drawing upon their
training and mentoring, entrepreneur
teams presented their solutions in the
semifinals on September 5, and 22 of these
teams qualified to participate in the Demo
Day event. On Demo Day, entrepreneurs
introduced their innovative ideas and
solutions to the participants with three-
minute presentations. n
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