Multi-Purpose Venues
Multi-purpose venues make economical and logistical sense. Sports stadia were traditionally used once a fortnight during a limited season, and stood empty the rest of the year. The ability to improve utilisation of a building or venue and leverage its transportation links and other facilities, as often as possible, is highly attractive and brings many benefits.
However, fast re-purposing network infrastructure -in line with the venue’s commercial needs- is costly and time-consuming.
The ability to change swiftly and efficiently the configuration profile of the whole network is essential for business agility.
Network automation
Network automation enables scheduling and automated implementation of new network services or groups of services on demand. It brings complete programmable control to legacy and next generation networks driving down the cost of network operations while increasing business agility.
Automate uses the concept of network ‘mode’ to provide an intuitive yet powerful way to automate network configurations and deliver customised connectivity to networks with regular or frequent service alterations such as those in multi-purpose venues.
How it works?
Zeetta Automate allows multi-purpose venues to create new services and network configurations for each of their operational modes. These services and configurations can be created, saved and scheduled for deployment. Automate offers a unique feature, Mode Management, which allows a venue to physically reconfigure the network from one predefined operational mode to another at the touch of a button. Automate allows the venue to either manually reconfigure to the original mode or even schedule the change at a specified time and date.
What are the benefits?
Network modes in combination with the adaptation of services and device configuration offer a powerful way to manage bespoke modifications to network connectivity which could be temporary or semi-permanent.
Using ‘mode’ management and scheduling automated network changes Automate can reduce the roll-out costs by up to 50% and the configuration time by up to 90% . Additional benefit include:
- Non-operational staff – Improved productivity, improved venue utilisation, greater business agility
- IT/Operations – Reduced workload, reduced out-of-hours reconfiguration
- Finance – Improved revenue, lower cost of change (OPEX)