Nexans wins contract to supply fibre optic and copper network cabling for South Korea's Incheon International Airport 
(03/01/2007)
Scheduled passenger traffic of airlines is currently growing at about 5% a year, with the Asia Pacific region continuing to lead the world (14% domestically). This has an impact on passenger aircraft ground infrastructure on all continents. Currently, there are nearly 300 projects to build or refurbish airports worldwide, including 40 major hubs. Moreover, airports increasingly need enhanced equipment, systems and networks.
Nexans has been awarded a 5.91 million Euro contract by the Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) to supply LANmark fibre optic and copper network cabling solutions together with its LANSense Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) system for the Phase II expansion project of South Korea’s largest airport.
Nexans has signed this contract with Daesun ENC who is the SI partner of Nexans in Korea, acting on behalf of the Incheon International Airport Corporation for which KT Consortium is the turnkey system provider. Kukdong, a Nexans company in Korea, will provide the complete cabling systems for this project. The full range of copper and fibre optic cables will be supplied in cooperation with Nexans’ world-wide LAN cable operations, including Belgium, Korea, US and UK.
For the project, Nexans will supply some 860 km of CAT6 copper cable, 351 km of single mode fibre optic cable (ranging from 12 up to 144 cores) for the airport infrastructure, and 86 km of single mode fibre optics cable for the new airport buildings, as well as 450 sets of racks. The LANSense IIM system, comprising 22,100 fibre optic nodes and 22,000 CAT6 nodes will provide an internet and standards based approach to the airport’s network security control together with advanced asset management features. The standard fibre optic network will comprise 8,700 nodes and the standard CAT6 network will comprise 1,250 nodes.
“Nexans is a key worldwide supplier in the LAN system market, and the Incheon project is a good opportunity to introduce Nexans’ advanced LAN management systems to our local market in Asia by demonstrating how they can meet specific customer requirements for network security control and asset management” said Michel Lemaire, Executive Vice-president for Nexans’ Asia-Pacific Area.
Incheon International Airport is considered as Asia’s most technologically advanced airport, with state-of-the-art security facilities and medical equipment. The Nexans cabling systems will provide the additional data communications infrastructure required to support the Phase II expansion project that will add a new runway and a further 165,300 squares metres of terminal space to enable passenger numbers to increase to 44 million a year.
Nexans will deliver the cabling systems by end of 2007.
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