Station Casinos has also consolidated 18 separate room reservation and telephone operations into a single location, freeing up space and making it possible to manage calls using Cisco’s Call Manager software.

Verizon Business, for example, this week said it has started field trials of communications services that use UCS.) Cisco launched UCS last year, but customers are just starting to install the technology. The consolidation has led to reduced demand for power and cooling while simplifying the company’s Fibre Channel infrastructure and network, Miles said. Miles said UCS allowed the company to cut the number of data center server racks from 12 to one. The company has deployed 3,000 of 9,000 Internet Protocol phones so far, and it is using Cisco’s new Unified Computing System (UCS) technology to consolidate data center operations. technologies, according to Baltz and Bryan Miles, director of networking and telecommunications. Recent network installations include a variety of Cisco Systems Inc. (For more on Red Rock Casino and video networking, check out this video. Station Casinos, which runs 18 casinos and hotels that are located off the Vegas Strip and primarily serve residents of the Las Vegas area rather than tourists, is seeing major benefits from the heavy investment in unified communications, unified computing and wireless technology, said company officials accompanying journalists on a tour of the Red Rock Casino and Resort here during the Cisco Live conference this week. “It’s a struggle, but we believe our technology is making us the best provider in the business,” Baltz said.

Baltz wouldn’t quantify the savings that the new systems have delivered, but at one point during the interview he said the return on investment has been “wildly” better than expected. “There’s absolutely savings on our costs with these technologies,” said Van Baltz, a vice president and chief technology officer at Station Casinos, in an interview. is struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - an undertaking that’s especially difficult because this area’s 14% unemployment rate is affecting its core customer base.īut IT officials at the casino and hotel chain say that they’ve found a silver lining among the dark economic clouds - new communications technologies that they’ve been able to deploy thanks to a multimillion-dollar investment in IT over the past two years.

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