- Unwiring the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. - When it opened in May 1999, the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino was the world’s largest hotel, casino, and convention complex, and the property has since remained a premiere destination for travelers to Las Vegas.. - With more than 4000 guest suites, a 650,000 square-foot conference center, the 2 million square-foot Sands Expo Center, corporate offices, and a 160,000 square foot casino, the Venetian complex hosts thousands of guests each year. - Rather than resting on their laurels, the Venetian’s owners are now expanding the property with a new tower that will accommodate 3,000 more guest suites as well as three floors of new meeting rooms.. - Running a successful hotel resort like the Venetian depends not only on the property’s architectural beauty, but on outstanding customer service.. - Within two years of opening, however, the Venetian’s management recognized one key need that was not being met: reliable wireless communications. - Hotel guests and workers have come to expect that their cellular phones or portable data terminals will work wherever they are, but that wasn’t the case inside the Venetian.. - This was the case with the Venetian.. - In 2001, four major cellular carriers (Verizon, Nextel, Sprint, and AT&T Wireless) approached the Venetian about installing the first in-building wireless system in Las Vegas, and the hotel’s chief technical officer, Steve Vollmer, quickly agreed.. - There are several choices in in-building wireless systems, but the Venetian’s cellular providers had some very specific technical requirements:. - The system had to accommodate any carrier,. - The system had to allow each carrier to. - The system had to accommodate future. - The system had to offer the highest possible. - The system had to have end-to-end alarming. - The system had to preserve the hotel’s. - The system had to be cost-effective to install,. - DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE Over a period of about two months, the carriers installed individual base stations in the Venetian’s Campanile Tower (where they also provide outdoor coverage on the Las Vegas Strip in front of the hotel) as well as one (for AT&T Wireless) in its IT data center. - In all, the system includes more than 80 hubs and more than 200 antennas to provide coverage in all hotel rooms, restaurants, gaming areas, theaters, Grand Canal shops, and other facilities.. - Due to recent mergers and acquisitions, the carriers managing equipment at the Venetian today include Sprint/Nextel, Verizon, Cingular, and T-Mobile. - In addition, the system has been expanded and ADC's InterReach Unison ® has been deployed in some areas of the resort.. - Since its installation, the system has quietly provided full coverage and outstanding performance. - Comprehensive, reliable cellular coverage is a given at major resorts like the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, and now guests and hotel team members get such coverage.
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