Muscat International Airport deploys state-of-art services for enhanced passenger experience
Muscat International Airport (MCT) has utilized a fiber-optic backbone network, based on R&M’s solutions, to ensure reliable, high-performance connectivity between its various facilities buildings and the telco networks of the country’s leading operators, Omantel and Ooredoo.
The role of OHI Telecom, a long standing R&M partner, was a major factor in this decision as the company is an approved contractor for a number of prominent government organizations in the country including passive communications infrastructure in Muscat International airport. “Muscat International Airport has demonstrated admirable foresight in deploying a state-of-the-art network that will serve as a robust base upon which it can deploy a number of services that directly and indirectly improve the passenger experience.” said R. Govindraj, General Manager at OHI telecommunications.
“Running an airport is an extremely complicated task that depends on seamless communication between hundreds and thousands of trained professionals. Passengers too have growing expectations and good connectivity is fundamental to addressing these,” said Samuel Godfrey, sales manager at R&M. The new fiber backbone network at Muscat International Airport is capable of supporting the latest 40GbE standard and can even support 100GbE connectivity requirements. In all, more than 10 buildings have been connected including the terminal, and Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower as well as the two mission-critical data centers and the telecom exchanges of Omantel and Ooredoo.
The new Muscat International Airport will have the capacity to handle 12 million passengers annually. Further expansions planned in three subsequent phases will ultimately boost the airport’s capacity to 24, 36 and 48 million passengers as per the demand.