Las Vegas casino hotels deploy redundant wired and wireless
networks, reducing costly downtime and improving operations
April 09, 2018 02:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN DIEGO & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--LightPointe, a manufacturer of outdoor 60 GHz and 80 GHz
point-to-point radios, and its partner KLA Laboratories, an IT
integrator, announced the sale of multiple 10
Gbps backhaul radios to a major telecom service provider.
LightPointe’s AireLink Series radios were installed as part of their
customer’s redundant IT infrastructure and risk management strategy,
providing wireless connectivity to data centers. In addition to
end-users obtaining unsurpassed network uptime, the deployments
provide faster-than-fiber access to cloud-based data for employees,
which enhances business operations efficiency and reduces operating
expenses. KLA’s customers include Local Exchange Carriers and
Internet Service Providers which deploy wireless
bridges.
“The proliferation of data warehouses and
cloud-based information—and the need to have equipment and
connectivity redundancy for reliability—is driving demand for
high-capacity, Ultra Low Latency wireless solutions,” said Dr. Heinz
Willebrand, CEO of LightPointe. “Data center downtime costs
organizations millions of dollars. IT professionals increasingly
deploy both wired and wireless connections to remote business
locations and data centers where information and Software as a
Service (SaaS) reside on the cloud. It’s an honor to be selected by
KLA for 10
Gbps radios for their customers—especially mission-critical
applications for hotels, businesses, and entertainment venues in Las
Vegas, which have demanding real-time security, reservations,
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and financial data
requirements that require maximum network uptime.”
According to the Ponemon Institute, a data
center outage can cost an organization US$7,900 per minute. In a
research study, 91% of respondents said they experienced unplanned
outages in the last 24 months with an average incident lasting 86
minutes—which is about US$680,000 per incident. Organizations deploy
wireless to increase uptime, either owning radios themselves or
acquiring via Platform as a Service (PaaS) vendors.
“After evaluating competing 10 Gbps radios, we
selected LightPointe because of performance advantages such as power
output for the link distance and their excellent support in previous
deployments,” said Glen Sutphin, a director for KLA. “Our customers
include carriers and businesses which demand the best solutions
available.”
About LightPointe
LightPointe (www.LightPointe.com)
manufactures wireless bridges for enterprises, 4G/5G/LTE carriers,
and Ultra Low Latency (ULL) applications, including High Speed
Trading.
Contacts
LightPointe
Todd Easterling
PR@lightpointe.com