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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Challenge
Named after a chemical element discovered in the German city of Darmstadt, the
darmstadtium is a high-tech convention center with strong links to the city’s business
and academic communities. It has a bold, asymmetric design and offers 18,000m
2
of
meeting space primarily used by banks, ICT companies, and academic delegates from
the city’s technical university.
The darmstadtium competes with a large number of rival congress centers. This
The darmstadtium competes with a large number of rival congress centers. This
fiercely fought-over market is changing as demand increases for bring-your-own-
device (BYOD) connectivity. Visitors routinely arrive with up to three devices. Patrick
Gaußmann, the mobile networking project leader at darmstadtium, says: “The surge in
BYOD over the last seven years has brought a huge change.”
To stand out from the competition, darmstadtium wanted to take the wireless
To stand out from the competition, darmstadtium wanted to take the wireless
experience to the next level with unrivalled connection speed and reliability.
Technologies from four vendors, including Cisco, were evaluated. Key priorities
included functionality, robustness, bandwidth, and outstanding in-house coverage
across all public areas.
Solution
Already equipped with a Cisco wireless local area network (WLAN), firewalls, email
and web security, the center chose Cisco® Unified Access for cohesive integration
and ease of management. In particular, darmstadtium liked the way that Unified
Access provided a simple foundation to support BYOD with unified management and
optimized wireless performance. Another reason for choosing Cisco was speed to
market with the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, enabling 5GHz high data throughput.
“We always endeavor to keep up with new developments and the changing demands
“We always endeavor to keep up with new developments and the changing demands
of our customers,” says Gaußmann. “We wanted to transform our network to one
enabled for BYOD and its challenges, in terms of managing huge demand spikes and
different types of user devices. So we met the task by upgrading to Cisco.”
Customer Case Study
darmstadtium gets competitive advantage with Cisco Wi-Fi experience and unified network
management and security
Customer Name:
darmstadtium
Industry:
Service Provider
Location:
Germany
Number of Employees:
38
Challenge
• Meet bring-your-own-device challenges
• Create powerful venue differentiator in
• Create powerful venue differentiator in
crowded marketplace
Solution
• Cisco Unified Access Network, with
Cisco Prime Infrastructure for managing
connected experience and 802.11ac
wireless
connected experience and 802.11ac
wireless
Results
• Average user satisfaction achieves top
rating
• Unique selling point created with
market-leading wireless platform
• Ability to offer better customer
experience at significantly lower price
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