Hybrid Networks

The networks underpinning the air transport industry (ATI) are increasingly complex – and increasingly critical to business agility. Companies face a myriad of challenges:

  • Support business growth through automation
  • Ensure service availability
  • Ensure application performance
  • Manage skills shortages related to new technologies
  • Manage network-related security
  • Do more with less

SITA Hybrid Networks combine best-of-breed technologies and engages with you site-by-site to create solutions tailored to your specific needs.

SITA know-how

Hybrid Networks improve application behaviour over a wide area network (WAN) without touching the applications themselves.

Hybrid Networks contain three pillars of execution, depending on your network strategy:

  1. Internet Confident Networks (lower costs)
    • Connectivity solutions
    • Security solutions
    • Internet offload solutions
  2. Information Security Management (end-to-end service)
    • Hybrid network service level agreements (SLAs)
    • Fault management for hybrid networks
  3. Application Fluent Networks (added value)
    • Market dynamics
    • Air transport industry (ATI) requirements
    • Extranet
    • Application monitoring
    • Professional services
    • Roadmap 2008

SITA know-how guarantees:

  • Focus on the ATI
    We belong to the industry and our mission is to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and remove complexity. We have a significant track record of cost reduction in the ATI (more than $US 300M since 2004).
  • Focus on solutions
    We take a consultative selling approach, and are dedicated to providing the right solutions with the right mix of products for each customer. In addition we are network agnostic and can integrate 3rd-party services on an as-needed basis.
  • Focus on partners
    We provide best-of-breed operational capabilities leveraging partners such as Orange Business Services and Juniper.
  • Focus on innovation
    Our innovative offering has no equivalence on the market, with unrivalled traffic management, application acceleration and Internet-offload capabilities.

Benefits

Hybrid Networks provide the following benefits.

  • Cost-effectively increases network capacity and improves traffic flows
  • Optimizes the network and improves management
  • Delivers service level agreements (SLAs) across both virtual private networks (VPNs) and Internet connections
  • Accelerates applications for improved responsiveness
  • Delivers world-class security
  • Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • Increases bandwidth
  • Ensures trouble-free migration to an all-IP environment

End-to-end success

SITA's modular approach to Hybrid Networks includes a three-step process to ensure end-to-end success.

Assess

Our Professional Services team works closely with you to review and develop your policies, systems and infrastructure. We recommend best practices following an in-depth analysis of your:

  • Processes and governance
  • IT strategy (strategic roadmap and alignment)
  • Technology optimization
  • IT infrastructure and integration
  • Network and data security
  • Performance engineering
  • Voice and convergence optimization

Implement

As a communication services integrator, we help reduce complexity for the air transport community. We specialize in such services as:

  • Integration and portfolio management
  • Supplier selection and transition
  • Contract novation
  • Contract management
  • Multi-provider service level agreements
  • Vendor (partner) management

Manage

We help keep your application users happy by managing your networks and network operations, end-to-end, wherever you are. We specialize in:

  • Multiple provider bill management
  • Multiple provider order and change management
  • Multiple provider helpdesk
  • Integrated web portal and e-bonding
  • Service management
  • Fault management
  • Management systems