Tata Communications wins multi-year contract with Air France-KLM

To provide next generation network connectivity

Tata Communications announced that it has won a multi-million dollar contract with Air France-KLM, Europe's second largest airline, to provide next-generation network connectivity to 170 sites. The network will form the backbone for the company as it embraces the latest mobile, cloud, big data analytics and wearable technologies to enhance and personalise passenger experience. This investment underpins the airline's growth strategy, driven by organisation-wide digital transformation, delivery of next-generation aircraft, and expansion in emerging markets.

The multi-year contract will see Tata Communications roll out a superfast intelligent network which will power Air France-KLM's mission-critical systems, including passenger check-in, flight operations and departure control applications, as well as corporate programs in the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Air France-KLM, which carried 87.4 million passengers in 2014, is the first major European airline group to move away from the legacy networks widely used in the airline industry.

Tata Communications will provide Air France-KLM with an MPLS wide area network (WAN) in the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, underpinned by the company's partnerships and investments in airport points-of-presence worldwide and the largest wholly-owned subsea cable network in the world.

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