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Excel is a premium performance
end-to-end infrastructure
solution
London Luton Airport uses Excel
platform to future proof its
operations.
Executive Summary
Customer:
London Luton Airport Operations Ltd (LLAOL)
Location:
London Luton Airport
Requirements:
Provide a resilient, highly secure cabling infrastructure as the
platform to run a new security search area within the airport.
Equipment: Excel Category 6A F/FTP, Excel Fibre, Environ
Racks and Excel Intelligent PDUs
Customer’s View: “The security of our passengers and staff is critical to our
operation and as part of our redevelopment we needed to
find the right infrastructure solution and partner to make
the most of the technology available to us today, as well
as providing the infrastructure for technology that will be
available to us in the future. We feel that we have more
than achieved our objectives with Excel and DWM.” Neil
Thompson, Operations Director, London Luton Airport.
Introduction
London Luton Airport is one of the UK’s largest
airports. In July 2014 final planning consent was
granted for a £110m development that will increase
the annual passenger capacity from 12 million to 18
million by 2020 and enable London Luton to become
a leading airport serving those living in London, Luton
and the surrounding regions. The plans include an
expanded and modernised terminal building and
improved surface access all of which are forecast
to increase the airport’s annual contribution to the
national economy by £1billion to £2.3billion.
The Requirement
One element of the refurbishment was to take
advantage of the latest technologies for the security
screening of passengers as well as being able to
provide up-to-date flight information to passengers
via the screens. To enable these works the e