A single minute of tarmac delay costs an airline $100. Multiply that by thousands of daily turnarounds. Modern aviation needs constant, secure, and unbroken connections to sync baggage handling, ground equipment, and emergency response. Best-effort networks fail at this job.
Galaxy Broadband delivers a network you control. We combine Private 5G and LEO satellite into a single, resilient system. Whether your teams work deep in underground baggage halls or out on the open apron, Galaxy helps ensure your infrastructure remains online.
Ramp agents and dispatchers need absolute certainty and real-time data. Spotty Wi-Fi creates blind spots, delaying aircraft turnarounds. Private 5G ensures load sheets, vehicle data, and maintenance logs sync instantly, allowing for tighter schedules and less ground time.
Passengers expect fast public Wi-Fi. By moving heavy operational data and staff communications to a dedicated Private 5G network, airports clear the congestion on public channels. This separation directly improves the passenger digital experience while keeping operational data secure.
Security teams need massive upload speeds to stream 4K video from body cameras, PTZ surveillance, and perimeter drones. Standard networks bottleneck this data. Dedicated 5G broadband provides the continuous, high-capacity upload speeds needed for AI computer vision and immediate threat assessment.
Modern airports use structural steel and Low-E glass. This builds a massive Faraday cage that blocks outside cellular signals. Galaxy designs indoor small cell setups (Nokia ASiR) to push signals through complex, heavily divided terminal walls.
Baggage handling systems and mechanical utility rooms sit behind dense concrete, rendering standard macro networks useless. Galaxy pushes Private 5G deep into these basements, keeping automated sorters, technicians, and RFID scanners online below grade.
Covering thousands of hectares of airfield with Wi-Fi means digging expensive trenches for power and fiber. Galaxy uses high-power AirScale macro radios to blanket vast outdoor zones, eliminating dead spots for ground support vehicles moving at high speeds.
Wi-Fi shares public airwaves. Devices fight for space. Galaxy builds Nokia Standalone (SA) Private 5G using ISED’s 3900 MHz band. This secures a clean, dedicated frequency solely for your airport operations, eliminating interference and guaranteeing bandwidth for life-safety tools.
Private 5G turns every piece of ground support equipment, baggage cart, and wheelchair into a visible, trackable asset — in real time. No more radio calls to locate a missing tug or ground power unit. You see everything, live, across the terminal, apron, and airfield.
Built on Galaxy’s Private 5G network and IMS platform.
Airports can’t afford to share. Shared public networks mean shared risk — congestion, interference, and zero control over what gets priority when it matters most.
Galaxy designs and deploys a standalone (SA) Private 5G network licensed specifically to your airport authority. Your spectrum. Your core. Your rules. No carrier negotiations, no consumer traffic bleeding into your airside operations, and no per-SIM surprises eating into your budget.
Airports rely on vulnerable fiber lines. Construction accidents or carrier outages instantly cut connections to national air traffic databases. Galaxy adds Eutelsat OneWeb LEO satellite technology to bridge these gaps. With latency under 70ms, LEO provides an active, fast backup path when fiber fails.
We use SD-WAN routers to monitor fiber health constantly. If a backhoe cuts a line, the system switches to the LEO satellite link in under a second. This hitless transition keeps VoIP calls and database queries active. End-users never notice the fiber broke.
During a failover, you must protect satellite bandwidth. The Galaxy Intelligent Internet Gateway (GiiG) acts as a traffic cop. It uses Deep Packet Inspection to enforce bandwidth rules instantly. It blocks passenger Wi-Fi and administrative updates, giving absolute priority to airfield lighting commands, perimeter alerts, and emergency voice traffic.
Mixing passenger data with Operational Technology (OT) creates severe security risks. Galaxy uses 5G network slicing to build cryptographically isolated virtual networks over the same physical radios. The baggage handling network physically cannot access the security camera network, meeting strict IEC 62443 standards.
Turnarounds are precision-timed. Our networks let ramp agents drop dead-zone-prone Wi-Fi tablets for ultra-reliable 5G devices. This allows instant coordination with the flight deck and operations center, shaving valuable minutes off every departure.
Lost baggage costs the industry billions annually. Our network keeps handheld scanners and deep-basement sorting machines constantly online. This continuous cross-referencing reduces mishandling rates and provides the fast response times needed for future autonomous baggage carts.
GPS fails completely indoors. Private 5G natively supports 3GPP positioning. By triangulating signals between indoor small cells, the network locates wheelchairs, portable generators, and specialized ground support equipment across the terminal in real-time. Staff stop wasting time searching for lost assets.
Airports are massive physical plants. Our networks use the machine-type communication capabilities of 5G to support thousands of low-power IoT sensors. You can track runway surface temperatures, fuel tank levels, and water leaks without eating up network capacity.
Navigating government radio rules is slow and complex. Galaxy handles the entire ISED application directly. We run the interference checks, submit coordinates, and secure the mid-band spectrum for the airport authority, skipping carrier negotiations entirely.
Airports are not telecom carriers. Galaxy’s SmartSite™ managed service monitors the Private 5G, SD-WAN, and LEO setup 24/7/365 from our Canadian Network Operations Center. We apply proactive patches and fix hardware degradation before it causes an outage.
Installing cellular hardware in secure aviation zones needs specialized clearance. We rely on NTFS (National Technical Field Services), our internal team of deployment experts. They handle all physical integration with your existing IT setup and legacy two-way radio networks.
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Wi-Fi operates on shared, public airwaves using a collision-based protocol. This causes interference and dropped connections. Private 5G uses dedicated, licensed NCLL spectrum and scheduled radio resources. This guarantees predictable speeds, smooth handoffs for moving vehicles, and strict control over data priority.
Yes. 5G core networks actively schedule device airtime. Administrators set strict rules to ensure life-safety tools, vehicle telemetry, and emergency voice calls always get the bandwidth they need, regardless of overall network traffic.
Yes. It uses physical SIM or eSIM authentication to block unauthorized access. Traffic remains entirely on the airport’s privately owned hardware. Logical network slicing strictly separates IT and Operational Technology (OT) traffic, stopping hackers from moving laterally through your systems.
Galaxy installs intelligent SD-WAN routers that constantly monitor primary fiber connections. If a failure occurs, the router instantly reroutes outbound data through the OneWeb LEO satellite terminal. Because LEO latency is under 70ms, real-time applications keep working, and the sub-second switch prevents active sessions from dropping.
No. Private 5G is built strictly for the airport’s operational needs. Passengers and outside contractors continue to use public cell networks and public-facing Wi-Fi. Moving heavy operational data to the Private 5G network actually clears congestion on the public networks, improving speeds for everyone.