Currently, on average almost 230,000 travellers pass through the hub every day and the figure is set to reach 325,000 per day by 2023, making zero downtime and high reliability a vital requirement for Dubai Airports.

The entry point's data centre will be the first of two planned modular facilities that Huawei will build in Dubai and together, they will operate as a pair of mirrored Tier III data centres interconnected through a dedicated fibre optic link that will provide high-level resilience and availability to support the critical operations at the hub.