Taking off in Tianjin

Asia’s economy is booming. More and more global players are shifting their production facilities to the Far East. For the A320 family of passenger airplanes, Airbus is also establishing a final assembly line in China. From the start, ICT partner T-Systems has stood at its side.

The demand for the most modern passenger airplanes by Asian airlines is massive. Today, European airplane manufacturer Airbus is already delivering roughly one-third of its planes to customers in the Far East. Over the next 20 years, it has 1,900 planes scheduled for sale in China alone. No wonder Airbus is now building a final assembly line in Tianjin near Beijing.

T-Systems, as long-term partner of Airbus, is following the plane manufacturer’s expansion in the Asia-Pacific realm and plans to establish its own local service representation. The ICT service provider is expanding the Airbus company network across the entire region, and will run it over the next three years. Because the communications network that Airbus is currently using at over 20 locations in China, Japan and Singapore are no longer able to cope with the increasing volume of data. The new Wide Area Network (WAN) combines Airbus internal data streams with communications with suppliers, and network access for maintenance work at the airports.

The Asian hub of the airline corporation in Beijing will additionally receive a connection with the Airbus central offices in Toulouse via a dual security high-speed line. One line runs along the land routes of the Trans Siberian
Railway – the other traverses the ocean via Singapore and Hong Kong. The solution is optimally adapted to regional and country-specific technology requirements, and provides Airbus with a high degree of flexibility – for future services and technologies as well. Asian users will moreover be individually supported by a T-Systems Service Desk, which was just built in Beijing. The ICT experts are standing at the ready in word and deed, around the clock, 365 days a year.