{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dish","title":"Antenna upgrades improve airport experience","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":880,"description":"An outage linked to the cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike affected Microsoft IT systems worldwide on July 19, with major airlines, including Delta Air Lines, left picking up the pieces from massive flight cancellations, app malfunctions and lost baggage a week later.\nLeighton Carroll, chief executive at Canadian communications technology company Baylin Technologies, was one of the passengers affected by canceled flights.\n“The recent IT outage proves that quality connectivity counts within an airport to communicate and make arrangements in these types of situations,” Carroll, who was stuck in Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport last week, told Connectivity Business News following the event. \nCarroll sits down with CBN in the latest episode of “The Dish” podcast to discuss how Galtronics, Baylin’s antenna-focused subsidiary, has capitalized on the demand for reliable airport connectivity.\nThe company has supplied its multibeam antennas for major airports undergoing network upgrades, including: \nAtlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport;\nLondon Heathrow Airport;\nSalt Lake City International Airport; \nJohn F. Kennedy International Airport; \nNew York La Guardia Airport; \nDallas International Airport; \nLos Angeles International Airport; and \nPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. \nWhether travelers are stationary or walking in an airport, they’re almost always on their mobile devices or laptops, Carroll tells CBN. Their mobile devices are looking for a radio frequency signal as soon as they land, necessitating the right type of antenna to accommodate capacity needs.\nFor carriers working with Galtronics on airport upgrade projects, aesthetics also matter, he says, so indoor antennas in airports may be so small they blend into the ceiling.\nGood connectivity should be so seamless that it’s unnoticeable, Carroll says.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vHIC0N7BgJCI3_k97jhugl5cQWDrq8ZnwCjZIMhiQxs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3NTgxLzE2NzMy/Nzg0ODUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}