Gaylord Deploys Cisco Mobile Office Solution

SAN JOSE, CA— Cisco Systems and Gaylord Entertainmenthave deployed an end-to-end Cisco network across the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, making the property the first convention center in North America to be a Cisco Mobile Office venue. The network will provide high-speed, wired and wireless access to employees and guests across the companys 1,400 hotel rooms and 400,000 square feet of convention and meeting space. Using Cisco technology, a virtual local area network (VLAN) can be established between rooms and the convention center upon request, creating a safe Intranet for specific conferences or other subsets of hotel guests. These groups of connected guests can then choose to activate their company sponsored virtual private network (VPN) service to safely connect the VLAN from their rooms or meeting space back to their companys network, wherever it may be located. The high-speed network is delivered through the Cisco Building Broadband Services Manager software platform and Cisco Aironet 350 Series of Wi-Fi compliant wireless local area network (WLAN) products. The Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, based in Kissimmee-St. Cloud, FL, offers high-speed wired meeting room and on-request public area WLAN access, as well as guestroom Ethernet access.