Smart City Deploys BroadHop SME In Hospitality IP Networks
Rollout includes more than 35,000 hotel rooms and hotspots in Central Florida
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.(Sept. 14, 2005) – Smart City Telecom, the service leader in hospitality telecommunications has deployed the BroadHop Service Management Engine (SME) to integrate voice, data and video services on a common infrastructure. BroadHop SME will power network services in more than 35,000 hotel rooms and hotspots in the world leading resort parks of Central Florida .
Smart City was looking to leverage Cisco’s Service Exchange framework to enable the integration and deployment of “triple-play” voice, video and data services on a common infrastructure, therefore Smart City selected Cisco’s Service Selection Gateway (SSG) router infrastructure.
BroadHop’s pre-integration with Cisco’s Service Exchange platform allowed Smart City to rapidly upgrade and expand its vast resort-based broadband wired and wireless solutions at a low cost in less than one month. Smart City provide Public LAN services in hotel guest rooms, meeting rooms, lobbies, common areas, resorts, theme-parks, convention centers, downtown areas and malls.
BroadHop’s Service Management Engine provides Smart City with a centralized service management capability for rapid service deployment and new revenue opportunities. As the intelligence layer in the network, BroadHop enables policy control, service creation, service authentication, payments and billing, a Portal for subscriber self-provisioning and value-added services, web-based customer care tools, reporting and administrative security.
BroadHop’s Service Management Engine has allowed Smart City ’s customers to dramatically reduce the amount of time it would normally take to deploy new services and product offerings,” said Rita Henry, Director of Business Development for Smart City . “That’s good news for Smart City and our customers, as we will be able to start realizing the associated cost savings and new revenue streams sooner than previously possible.”
“We are pleased to be supporting Smart City , a leader in IP services, with the ability to make its broadband networks user-programmable,” said William Diotte, BroadHop’s CEO. “With Central Florida experiencing explosive growth, Smart City is well positioned to grow its leadership position in resort broadband services.”
About BroadHop
BroadHop’s mission-critical, carrier-class products reduce the complexity and cost of deploying “triple play” voice, video and data services on IP networks. The BroadHop Service Management Engine provides a new layer of intelligence and “user programmability” on IP networks and plug-and-play deployment through its pre-integrated technology.
BroadHop enables enterprise network operators to deploy and manage IP services across their corporate networks, either in a Small and Medium Business (SMB) multi-office or a Global Fortune 500 environment. Today, BroadHop’s products and technology are at the forefront of IP service deployment with leading carriers, service providers and Fortune 500 corporations.
For more information please visit http://www.BroadHop.com.
About Smart City
Smart City is a full-service family of telecommunications companies, based in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Known internationally as a leader in convention services, Smart City also offers solutions for business, hospitality and master-planned communities in Central Florida .
Through its various operating companies, including the mpiNET Internet service in Maitland, Smart City provides five-star voice/data, Internet, Wi-Fi, DSL, co-location, Web hosting and managed network services to more than 10,000 businesses and residences in Central Florida, including the Orange County Convention Center and several major theme parks, resorts and hotels.
or more information please visit http://www.smartcity.com.
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