Case Study: Kansai Airports achieves secure, cost-effective direct interconnection to Amadeus AODB (50–60% cost savings) with Equinix

Kansai Airports Undertakes Digital Transformation with Platform Equinix

Kansai Airports, which operates Kansai International and Osaka International Airports, needed to modernize operations by deploying Amadeus’ Airport Operational Database (AODB) to centralize real‑time flight and resource data. The AODB was hosted overseas and could not reliably or securely communicate with Kansai’s domestic networks over the public internet; a traditional dedicated link would be expensive, take about six months to provision, and carry high ongoing costs.

Kansai Airports worked with Equinix to deploy connections via Equinix IBX data centers and the software‑defined Equinix Fabric, receiving strong technical support and bandwidth well above AODB’s 10 Mbps requirement. The solution was live within two months, cut interconnection costs by 50–60%, delivered a stable high‑speed link to the AODB and cloud services, and paved the way for future cloud migrations and expanded connectivity.

Kansai Airports

Hideyuki Moriike

AODB Project Manager, IT Department, Business Applications Group