China's air transport technology supplier Travelsky
Technology has hiredSITAto carry out major improvements
to its disaster recovery facilities in time for this
year'sBeijing Olympics.
The contract includes the installation of a new
disaster-recovery datacentre in Beijing.
Airlines around the world are expected to increase the number of
flights arriving in Beijing by more than 70% during the Olympic
Games.
Wang Ying Chun, Travelsky's chief financial officer, said, "We
are working with SITA to ensure that foreign carriers can have the
best possible links to their airline reservation systems. We are
also setting up a disaster-recovery datacentre to ensure reliable
back-up support to airlines during the Olympic Games."
SITA will provide separate Wan connections for this datacentre
to make sure all network connections of airline carriers can be
switched over to the disaster recovery centre in the event of any
failure in the primary datacentre.
The SITA IP-based virtual private network service, which is now
being installed at Beijing International Airport, is a managed
service that provides customers with secure and reliable
service.