Networking Refresh
The Details
Client
National Amusements – Showcase Cinemas
Year
2019-2020
Location
New England and Ohio
Work Needed
Update network infrastructure
Their Problem
- Constant slow or failed transfers
- Daily Automation command failures
- Constant network gear reboots that only temporarily fix issues
- No fault-tolerance or redundancy
- Multiple vendors of old deprecated switch gear with little to no management capability
- Network not compatible with new Video and Audio over IP technologies
- Pulling new cabling not cost effective in some locations
Our Solution
- Remove old network gear in its entirety and install new ‘affordable’ network gear
- Utilize old cabling infrastructure by re-terminating problem connections with newer and more advanced components to keep costs down
- Combine legacy physical networks lines into dynamic aggregate groups for fault tolerance, failover and load balancing from end to end and reduce single points of failure
- Leverage IP technologies to distribute Audio and Video over the network instead of pulling additional cabling for each use
- Increase available backbone network speeds to 20Gbit for smaller sites and 40Gbit for larger sites with plenty of headroom for future network needs and growth
- Apply Quality of Service(QOS) to every data packet on the network from end to end to create a single plug-n-play ‘Converged Network’ that will support
- Line Speed Content Transfer
- Realtime Web Applications
- Voice over IP Applications
- Alternative Content and Realtime Streaming Media Applications
- Low Latency Video Conferencing Applications
- Extremely Low Latency Online and Offline Gaming Applications and E-Sports
- Social Media Interaction Applications
- Built-In support for Audio Over IP Network Protocols including the new AES67, CobraNet, Dante, AVB, etc