Case Study: Lufthansa City Center achieves low‑latency, secure, scalable virtual desktops with Equinix

Lufthansa City Center - Customer Case Study

Lufthansa City Center (LCC), a large global travel agency franchise, needed a cost‑effective, flexible and scalable virtual desktop platform that guaranteed 24/7 access, minimal latency and strict data sovereignty in Germany for hundreds of franchise offices. The tourism market’s competitiveness and stringent security and licensing requirements made it essential to blend dedicated infrastructure with on‑demand cloud resources in a hybrid, interconnected solution.

Equinix, Axians and ProfitBricks teamed up on Platform Equinix using Equinix Fabric to interconnect Axians’ dedicated hosting (and Microsoft SPLA licensing) with ProfitBricks’ IaaS cloud in Frankfurt. The result is a low‑latency, secure virtual desktop environment that keeps data in Germany, scales cost‑effectively, speeds onboarding of new franchisees, improves stability and performance, and serves as a repeatable blueprint for distributed businesses.

Lufthansa City Center

Thomas Klein

Head of IT Infrastructure