Be prepared. The underdeveloped world is rising. Passenger numbers are accelerating. The developing world is massively adopting and demanding truly global coverage for ever more sophisticated personal mobile services. It’s driving a new era of low-cost web. At the same time, the imminent arrival of billions of tiny smart devices demands ultra low-cost and ubiquitous data transmission. For air transport, what are the new enabling trends in connectivity to watch for? And how should we plan and prepare for this new era, bringing to bear the much anticipated game-changing advances that will determine passenger journeys and uproot our industry’s ways of working?

1. Low-cost
Connectivity for all
and everything
IT Summit
Sébastien Fabre - SITA

2. CONNECTIVITY in the ATI…
3G/4G WiFi
Tetra /
P25
LAN /
WLAN
IoT*
(*)LiFi, ZigBee, SigFox, LoRa…
• AIRCRAFT ground connectivity: low
volume, high costs (outdoor coverage),
business critical
• Airline STAFF mobile connectivity:
low-cost but low performance on
average, lack of coverage at airport
Every technology require specific / ATI
dedicated deployments at airport
WIFI OR CELLULAR?
• VoWiFi will surpass VoCellular in 2018 and
will be 3 times bigger in 2020
• 4 times more public hotspot in 2020
compared to 2016 (433 millions)
4G, 5G… SO WHAT?
• Average speed per Mobile device from
2Mbps to 6.5Mps (2015 -> 2020): 3.2 fold
• Average traffic generated per Mobile device
from 495MB to 3.3GB (2015 ->2020): 6.6 fold
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3. … but WHAT IS CONNECTIVITY?
Infrastructure
Usecases
Features
Connectivity
versus Data
feed
Geolocation:
Indoor at
airport
Security
Performance
Coverage
Mission
Criticality
Mobile
workforce
locally
Roamers
(aircraft,
pilot/crew,
mecanics…)
End-to-end
tracking
(baggage,
aircraft
spare-parts)
Public
Airport
Private
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4. LOW-COST?
ATI Network spend
• Data $1 Billion – decreasing 3% YoY on average
• Mobile $4 Billion– increasing 3% YoY on average
ATI Security spend
• $2.4 Billion – increasing 10% YoY
Application Performance Management spend
• $10 Billion (all industries) – increasing 19% YoY
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5. ATI STANDARDS FOR LOWER COSTS
ATI Standards…
• Standard technologies
• ATI use-cases
• Plan for different level
of performance
• Plan for appropriate
security
• Applicable to public,
private and airport
infrastructures
… to lower
costs ...
• Economy of scale
• Limit technology
spread
• Infrastructure
architecture blueprints
and design best
practice
• Airline and Airports to
become prescriptors
and influence aircraft
manufacturers for
instance
… to enable
Roaming…
• Use of local / airport
infrastructure for global
users
… as well as
End-to-End
Tracking
• Data feeds instead of
connectivity

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Source: presentation of Sébastien Fabre - SITA
at the 2016 SITA Air Transport IT Summit, Barcelona.
2016 Air Transport IT Summit. Confidential. © SITA 2016