Thursday 1/21/2010 Lufthansa

The day was spent at the Lufthansa Teknick office. Today's discussion revolved around the infrastructure needed to support 2700+ cabin and admin desk phones, 3000+ DECT wireless phones and special need phones.  Everything on the ship communicates over the IT network. Phones, Data, music, TV signal, environmental controls...  Bob and the network enineers have to balance all this data and make sure everything will work as planned.  DCL has to setup the rules for who can dial who, who gets charged for outbound calls to voicemail setup.  This was our second meeting and the open items were on a 19 page spreadsheet.  Hopefully we knocked it down to 2 today.  We met at what is called Deutsche Lufthansa base. The 5th largest airline they also have a separate business called Lufthansa Systems which is a  full IT integration service that revolve around transportation communications and entertainment. Daylight here is from around 7AM until 5PM. We were inside the whole day so I do not have any pictures.