These telecom transitions apply to business and industry broadly and to airports in particular. Telephone companies previously played a major role, along with individual airport tenants, especially the airlines. DOAs becoming more entre-preneurial. Shared tenant services growing, such as sharing of DOA-owned telephone systems, universal cabling systems, etc. DOAs taking on greater telecom responsibilities.
Fiber optics is just the start of the oncoming photonics world.
A comprehensive STP should address and respond to all these transitions. New terminals and renovations present other DOAs nationwide and worldwide with a major opportunity to provide advanced, yet practical, telecom. The extent, of course, always depends on the resources available. A new manager of telecom, management information systems or information management or airport executive arriving on the scene. The flood of new, exciting applications needing a plan to fit into.