CASE STUDY
The airport wanted a solution forklifted in
place in record time, with no downtime or
instability. With the exception of all but
one solution provider, Corcoran was being
told such a project would take four years:
“We were told we were crazy.” The HPE and
Aruba solution was implemented in 18
months by HPE Pointnext.
More resilient, better prepared for
the future
Massive amounts of video and analytical
data, amounting to almost 10 petabytes, are
recorded from the CCTVs around the airport,
managed by nine HPE 3PAR storage systems.
The simplified data centre network
architecture, based on the HPE Intelligent
Resilient Framework technology, replaces the
legacy three-tier design with a flatter topology,
all-active links and superior performance.
A step change in Wi-Fi performance
By removing bottlenecks and potential
single points of failure and by utilising a
backbone based on many multiples of
40Gb connections, Gatwick’s new network
represents a step change in resilience
and performance. The new network has
run without a hitch, with almost zero
interruptions. For a major airport, in wireless
terms, it is a market-leading service.
Streamlined project management
The new HPE data centre and Aruba Campus
Edge and Wi-Fi architecture, enables the
airport to take advantage of new, modern
technologies for the benefit of all airport users
– including more than 250 onsite businesses,
airlines, ground service providers, passengers
and 30,000 staff. The solution makes the
network more resilient, highly available and
future-proofs Gatwick’s investment.
“The deployment of the new network in
both the campus and data centre has
transformed the way the network performs,
both in terms of capacity and reliability,”
said Nick Batchelor, Head of IT Operations,
Gatwick Airport. “It’s given us around about
100X uplift in terms of overall capability
and since the implementation, there have
been no disruptions.”
Gatwick’s modern network now supports
thousands of terabytes/second switching
capacity; hundreds of VPN instances for
multi-tenant solutions; tens of multicast
VPN instances for various applications,
provisioning capacity for hundreds of
thousands of multicast groups; millions
of IPv4 address routing capacity. In
addition, it ensures the scalability to cope
with future demands with tens of HPE
FlexFabric 12900E switches, hundreds of
HPE FlexFabric 5930 swit