Megaport and Lufthansa Systems Announce Landmark Partnershipto Accelerate Airline Digital Transformation
With this strategic partnership, Lufthansa Systems will use Megaport’s Software
Defined Network to digitally transform the aviation industry.
Brisbane, Australia – 24 June 2024 – Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) (“Megaport”), the global
leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, and Lufthansa Systems, a leading aviation IT
provider, today announced a new partnership that will accelerate digital transformation in theaviation industry.
The strategic partnership will see Lufthansa Systems leverage Megaport’s global Software Defined
Network (SDN) to securely and reliably move the global aviation cloud from a single cloud tomultiple clouds by moving core routing from cloud to Megaport. Megaport will also facilitate asecure aviation customer landing zone to expedite peering with other airlines and exchanging
data.
Lufthansa Systems provides IT services to over 350 airlines worldwide. Its Global Aviation Cloudinitiative aims to virtualise mission-critical airline applications and transition them to the cloud.
Using Megaport’s private connectivity from resilient data centres, virtual firewalls, and virtual
routing, Lufthansa Systems can securely and reliably connect airline customers to its
cloud-hosted applications.
“With this partnership, Megaport is helping us to interconnect our global deployments in a
resilient, diverse and on-demand way,” said Steffen Wagner, Head of Technology Centre ofExcellence at Lufthansa Systems. “By using Megaport’s solutions, we’re able to go live with hybrid
cloud traffic from existing data centres to Azure and Google Cloud.”“We are excited to work with Lufthansa Systems as they innovate and deploy critical cloudservices to digitally transform the aviation industry,” said Michael Reid, CEO of Megaport. “Ourpartnership enables the secure, high performance connectivity their customers need to rapidly
scale their connectivity and unlock the full benefits of cloud computing.”
Key benefits of the partnership include reduced network costs, improved performance, enhanced
security, and the ability to rapidly provision virtual network services via Megaport’s API, used as
Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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About Lufthansa Systems
Lufthansa Systems GmbH is a leading airline IT provider determined to shape the future of digitalaviation. It draws its unique strengths from its ability to combine profound industry know-how
with forward-looking technological expertise and has lived by its slogan “We’re into IT” for morethan 25 years. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, the company offers its morethan 350 customers an extensive range of successful IT products and services for the aviationindustry, many of which are market leaders. Lufthansa Systems’ pioneering portfolio covers all of
an airline’s business processes – in the flight deck, in the cabin, and on the ground. As a techcompany and airline IT provider, Lufthansa Systems is committed to identifying its own
environmental footprint and improving that of its airline customers across the globe.
Headquartered in Raunheim near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Lufthansa Systems employs around2,800 people at its locations in 16 countries.
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