Harry Reid International Airport is a special airport, with some very specific needs. The network infrastructure is very important. That makes it possible to offer travelers a good experience, from curb to gate. During HPE Discover, we sat down with Rishma M. Khimji, the airport’s Chief Information and Technology Officer, to talk about how special it is exactly.
Harry Reid International Airport is the largest largest 100% common-use airport in the United States. That means that Khimji and her team have a lot of control over its infrastructure and what runs on it. That’s a good thing, because that means they can go for a unified approach, from gate assignments to passenger flow, without being constrained by airline-specific systems that plague other major hubs.
At the core of the airport is an extensive HPE infrastructure featuring over 3,000 HPE Aruba access points delivering connectivity throughout the terminals. This network does more than just provide free Wi-Fi; it also generates valuable analytics about passenger movement patterns. That’s very valuable data for things like retail placement, bottleneck reduction, and service enhancements. The airport’s segmented network architecture ensures casino gaming operations remain completely separate from other systems.
As Khimji explains, “The airport is the first and last look of the city.” It should reflect that in terms of what travelers can do and experience. Listen to this new episode how Harry Reid International Airport does this and how it intends to do that in the future.
Techzine Talks on Tour: season two
We started Techzine Talks on Tour in May of 2024, with the goal of doing at least one episode every two weeks. After 25 episodes in 2024 we were close enough to that target for us to call the first season a good start. That’s what it is, a start, because we’re not done yet. We continue with a second season, with the goal of growing our reach even further.
A big thank you to the people who found us in 2024 already. We hope you continue to listen to Techzine Talks on Tour in 2025. If this is your first encounter with our podcast, there’s much more to come! We hope you enjoy this episode.
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Previous episodes of Techzine Talks on Tour:
- The browser is the next security frontier: how do we secure it?
- Slack is evolving into a work operating system
- Oracle Database@AWS: best of both worlds?
- Replatforming virtualized workloads: Do your VMs need a new home?
- Amazon S3: almost 20 years old, but still very modern
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