Cisco Cisco Aironet 1200 Access Point 信息指南
Customer Case Study
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Advertising Agency Enhances Productivity and
Collaboration
Collaboration
TBWA\Chiat\Day works with NetXperts to mobilize their Unified Communication
applications over WLAN.
applications over WLAN.
Chall enge
TBWA\Chiat\Day is part of TBWA Worldwide. TBWA
Worldwide (
Worldwide (
http://www.tbwa.com
) creates Disruptive
ideas for global clients, including ABSOLUT, adidas,
Apple, Beiersdorf, Henkel, Infiniti, Mars,
McDonald’s, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard,
Pioneer, Samsonite, Standard Chartered Bank,
Singapore Airlines and Sony PlayStation. TBWA is
one of the fastest-growing networks in the Top-Ten,
and was named by ADWEEK as Global Agency
Network of the Year and the most-awarded Agency
Network by Creativity magazine in 2007. TBWA has
258 offices in 75 countries, and approximately
11,000 employees worldwide.
Apple, Beiersdorf, Henkel, Infiniti, Mars,
McDonald’s, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard,
Pioneer, Samsonite, Standard Chartered Bank,
Singapore Airlines and Sony PlayStation. TBWA is
one of the fastest-growing networks in the Top-Ten,
and was named by ADWEEK as Global Agency
Network of the Year and the most-awarded Agency
Network by Creativity magazine in 2007. TBWA has
258 offices in 75 countries, and approximately
11,000 employees worldwide.
The agency’s Los Angeles offices are spread out
over two warehouse buildings. Given the
collaborative work process, creative development
teams are constantly moving around and do a lot of
their work in the facility’s “central park” area or the
media rooms within the facility. The agency
warehouse setting creates a challenging RF
environment. With high ceilings and RF
interferences due to a multitude of wireless devices
over two warehouse buildings. Given the
collaborative work process, creative development
teams are constantly moving around and do a lot of
their work in the facility’s “central park” area or the
media rooms within the facility. The agency
warehouse setting creates a challenging RF
environment. With high ceilings and RF
interferences due to a multitude of wireless devices
and microwaves, voice communications often resulted in dropped calls, poor voice quality, and the
inability to be reached, because phones would not ring. As a result, creative teams often had to
return to their desk to make calls, thus interrupting the creative flow for the media teams.
inability to be reached, because phones would not ring. As a result, creative teams often had to
return to their desk to make calls, thus interrupting the creative flow for the media teams.
The existing wireless infrastructure consisted of 40 standalone Cisco
®
Aironet
®
350 Series Access
Points across a 97,000 square-foot facility supporting Spectralink PTB410A Phones, which were
centrally managed with a Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE). The legacy WLSE did not
support inter-subnet roaming and real-time radio frequency (RF) control of the access point for the
deployment and management of advanced mobility services such as voice.
centrally managed with a Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE). The legacy WLSE did not
support inter-subnet roaming and real-time radio frequency (RF) control of the access point for the
deployment and management of advanced mobility services such as voice.
EXECUTIVE SUM MARY
Customer Name: T BWA\Ch iat\Day
● Industry: Advertising
● Location: Los Angeles, CA
● Number of Employees: More than 1000
● Location: Los Angeles, CA
● Number of Employees: More than 1000
Challen ge
● Expand mobility of creative development
teams
● Enhance productivity and real-time
collaboration
● Improve QoS of communications in
challenging RF environment
Solut ion
● Pervasive Voice-ready Cisco Unified Wireless
Network for mobility and collaboration
anywhere in the facilities
● Unified communications tools to support
presence, voice and email integration, and
meeting place applications
meeting place applications
● Wireless IP phones to improve reachability
and offer mobile unified communications to
employees who are mobile on campus.
Results
● Enhanced productivity and collaboration for
highly mobile creative development team.
● Faster access to data applications in central
park area and media rooms.
● Improved reachability and enhanced
collaboration for all employees when in the
facilities