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The Airport of Madrid-Barajas was inaugurated in 1931 and is being managed by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA). About 45.8 million passengers used the airport in 2006 which makes de the Madrid- Barajas airport fifth in Europe and 13th in the world. The airport consists of four terminals plus one satellite terminal. The total area of the terminals spans over 1.3 million square meters (in addition to 36 km2 of external area), which makes this airport the largest in the world in terms of terminal area.The airport has a multiservice network which provides LAN connectivity to the companies operating in the airport. In this sense, AENA functions like a communications service provider, offering its services to their customers which include airways companies, car rental companies, etc.. Each customer gets the corresponding network drops assigned which are managed in a dedicated VLAN and which can span the whole airport campus. The implementation and management of this multiservice network is a responsibility of “Division de TIC”, the division in charge of the airport’s information technology and communications. “The airport works continuously – for this great machine to work without disruption it is necessary that everything works correctly. When an incident occurs we have to diagnose it and solve it as fast as possible. |
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