XON has been awarded the contract to maintain the Airports Company of South Africa's (ACSA) OR Tambo International Airport IT infrastructure for a second three-year term.
The contract covers more than 12 000 active IP devices and is maintained 24/7 by 24 full-time, on-site employees, with an additional 40 temporary employees.
“The tender includes maintenance, new equipment, implementation, all the copper and fibre infrastructure, environmental monitoring, and IT backup power solutions by APC,” says Gerhard Dreyer, director of infrastructure at XON.
XON supplies turnkey copper, fibre optic and electrical infrastructure, primarily for telecommunications, data, telephony applications and server rooms. The company offers eight imperative implementation services that include site inspections and surveys; architecture of infrastructure solutions; project management; change control; problem management; technical and administrative contracting; acceptance testing and quality assurance; and unbiased end-user surveys and opinion polls to gauge project fulfilment and determine end-user satisfaction.
XON will also be responsible for maintaining and installation of all IT backbone infrastructure requirements at OR Tambo, and that included what was necessary for the FIFA World Cup and all related areas that contributed to the success of the event.
OR Tambo already processes millions of passengers a year and underwent a major overhaul as it geared up for the FIFA World Cup, ever-increasing passenger numbers, and new aircraft.
XON's contract includes 24-hour environmental monitoring systems that define the humidity, control temperature, flooding, electrical supply, access control, monitoring and alerting on-site at OR Tambo's data centres and wire centres.
The particular upgrade also included the installation of additional fibre optic cables that ensure redundancy and limit the impact of any disaster on connectivity.
“All of the work we have done to date and will do in the future has to conform to stringent occupational health and safety (OHS) standards since it is a combination of air-side and land-side,” says Dreyer. “Since it is a port facility it also required extremely high security standards and all on-site employees were vetted to meet stringent security requirements.”
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