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42 XXX XXX CASE STUDY Advanced Security Solutions 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