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Smart City Partners with MBCC to Complete Multi-Million Dollar Renovations Project SIGNIFICANT TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES TO MAKE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER A PREMIER CON V ENTION LOCATION
Smart City Networks has finalized a contract with the Miami Beach Convention Center to provide extensive technology upgrades as a part of their two and half year long, multi-million dollar renovations project. The agreement, effective June 1st, 2018 will go into motion immediately with a record installation time-line of 90 days. The upgrades, with the partnership of the local internet service provider Hotwire Communications, will include enhanced network cabling speeds and capacities, high-speed internet, and telephone services. The Miami Beach Convention Center’s new network will have the capabilities to support large-scale data and technology needs of the industry’s most complex events. “The capabilities of this network upgrade and its unparalleled connectivity is the final piece of the Miami Beach Convention Center’s re-imagine process over the past two and half years” states Dave Anderson, Regional Vice-President for Spectra; the convention center’s management firm. The project, with a completion deadline of late August 2018, includes the following upgrades: • • • • • •
A wireless network supporting up to 64, 000 concurrent devices throughout the facility 10 Gigabit fully-redundant internet connection with the ability to provide scaled bandwidth independently within the area of the building and is serviced over a redundant self-healing ring operated by Hotwire Communications Established wireless link using Airfiber ensuring that the connection is triple redundant 20 Gigabit uplinks to each edge switch with failover to 10 Gigabit Built-in internet circuit redundancy that includes secondary circuits and redundant pathways into the facility, designed and supported by Hotwire Communications High-Density Wireless install
Executives of Smart City, which have serviced Miami Beach Convention Center for over 15 years, share in the excitement. “Our network in Miami will set the new precedent for high-density wireless services in a major convention center,” said Mark Haley, President of Smart City Networks. “Our design includes new redundancy features that will ensure flawless performance during the largest and most challenging events.”
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