Unique and cost-effective global network solution from Lufthansa Systems
With SkyConnect Lufthansa Systems offers a managed network service, which brings intelligence to the companies’ infrastructure. It is modular in design and can be customized to meet individual needs and provides cost-effective connectivity for WANs, GDS booking providers, voice integration and messaging.
Moreover, airlines are able to reduce their communications cost significantly and sustainably, and in doing so, increase their own productivity continuously. All necessary tasks from purchasing, project management to accounting are integral. With SkyConnect we offer around the clock availability with highly prooven security management.
The name SkyConnect stands for our global network, which we run according to the multi-provider network principle. This means that our network itself is made up of the best possible subnetworks run by the various regions and local providers. We are able to offer our customers the greatest possible flexibility and the best value for money. On top of this, additional value-added services are provided, which harmonize the subnetworks for the customer and integrate the entire network with specified customer requirements.
Thus, price and qualtity are important parts of our WAN offering. And the success to date of SkyConnect is proof of just how well these two components can be brought together.
The power of multi-provider networks
The use of the multi-provider principle has the advantage that Lufthansa Systems is not forced to use up capacity in its own network and does not need to engage in permanent partnerships. Regular benchmarking and continuous invitations to tender made with providers ensure constant competition and thus the choice of the best regional network operators worldwide. The requirements of each and every potential customer are considered in new developments. As an example, custom migration and integration models are being developed for the airline industry, which permit the simple integration of strategically important products such as Type B messaging. In the process, the project team commits itself to incorporating client needs in a non-bureaucratic fashion.
Cost benefits can be realized in operations by utilizing data transmissions over the internet. If you rely on a single worldwide provider, then this provider is usually not interested in re-routing part of the data transmission over available internet connections that exist outside its own network, or in using data compression, which can result in substantial bandwidth savings. However, as an independent network manager in a multi-provider system, Lufthansa Systems can monitor such possibilities and thus offers its customers all the benefits of a stable, global network.
