Thursday
Jul012010

Bonhams Auctioneers and Valuers choose Wired Sky to provide on demand network and telephony solution for highly successful Owston sale 

Wired Sky was recently chosen by Bonhams to provide a complete turnkey network solution for the recent  high profile Owston Collection sale which raised 13.1 million dollars. Bonhams required a networked solution that would encompass high speed internet connectivity, VoIP telephony with call recording, ubiquitous WiFi and over 30 networked  computers. Wired Sky engineers designed and built a network within the overseas passenger teminal that incorporated a microwave link, back-up ADSL( failover), quality of service enabled VoIP telephony with constant recording and high end switching and routing. Over the 7 day period of the even the network handled over 800,000 internet requests and sustained over 4000 telephone calls whilst maintaining a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Tuesday
Jun152010

Wired Sky Provides On Demand WiFi and Networking solution for Australia’s largest technology Tradeshow-CeBIT

As Hannover Fairs Australia’s preferred Wireless and Networking partner Wired Sky was recently called upon to provide a network solution for Australia’s largest technology tradeshow CeBIT Australia

The network, designed and built by Wired Sky consisted of a dark fibre IP tail supplied by TPG providing gigabit bandwidth. Multiple VLANs for effective network segmentation and security, High density Xirrus WiFi arrays with the capacity to support 1000 concurrent WiFi users and management via Wired Sky’s NOC Box which includes, state-full firewall, squid proxy,  DHCP server, Natting, bandwidth management, radius authentication and captive portal.

High end switching and patching through the venue was facilitated by SCEC’s very professional and accommodating network services team headed up by David Tattersall.

Wired Sky's NOC BOX also enabled a clever twitter wall solution that re-directed  users connecting on a certain SSID (WiFi network name) to a twitter page allowing for feedback between speakers and conference delegates and moderated by HannoverFairs staff

Over the 3 day period of CeBIT Australia Wired Sky’s network solution serviced over 1.5 million internet requests with 100% uptime and average download speed of 3mbps per user



Wednesday
Apr212010

Melbourne Zoo selects Wired Sky's "ZOOCAM" for Orangutan enclosure

Zoo's Victoria recently selected Wired Sky to provide Melbourne Zoo's Orangutan Exhibit with its interactive, web streaming camera solution ZOOCAM.  Whilst IP based web cameras for animal enclosures are not new ZOOCAM represents the most technologically advanced web streaming solution available for Zoo's today.

ZOOCAM enables users on the internet to take control of one or several networked camera's within an enclosure and Pan tilt or Zoom as required to view the animals from a variety of different angles and environments. ZOOCAM users can also select pre-determined points of interest within an enclosure which will automatically move the camera to a pre-programmed position and focus.


Discussions are currently underway with a number of ZOO's around the world and a major Marine Park in the USA for ZOOCAM installations in a range of environments including underwater aquariums to polar bear enclosures


For more information on the huge range of features of the ZOOCAM solution click here

 

Wednesday
Apr212010

Xirrus Mothership lands at Alienworks Clan Challenge

Alienware recently held its first major gaming event in Australia at the nostalgic Carriageworks venue in Sydney. Event organiser, TCO Pty Ltd hired Wired Sky to provide internet and wifi connectivity for the event. 

Wired Sky provided its VenuNET solution which included an 8 megabit symmetrical microwave link, enterprise router and switching and its extremely popular mothership shaped- Xirrus XN12 high density WiFi Array. The solution enabled real time streaming of the event out to the web and ubiquitous high speed wifi coverage throughout the event venue.

The folks responsible for running the event from Cybergamer commented that the VenuNET network performed perfectly with no downtime and excellent speed. We expect to seee the Xirrus mothership appearing at numerous other LAN gaming events soon!

Wednesday
Apr072010

MotoBlur launch gets Wi-Gorilla'd by Wired Sky

Wired Sky recently provided its Wi-Gorilla high density Wifi solution to Peer Group Media's launch for Motorola's new social networking platform MotoBlur.

Held at the Overseas passenger terminal at Circular Quay. the MotoBlur launch provided an opportunity for local media to get a first glimpse of the MotoBlur platform and get hands on with the technology. Facilitating WiFi internet access at the event was Wired Sky's Wi-Gorilla solution encompassing a Xirrus XN-12 Wifi Array, and an aggregated 3G internet solution to provide connectivity from the Array to the world wide web.

 The Wi-Gorilla solution can provide instant connectivity for up to 500 devices within a 200 metre radius and Wired Sky is the leading Australian company in deploying high density on demand Wifi solutions for a range of events including sporting events, conferences and road shows.