Large hotel network

[carl_townshend]

hi guys

im currently on holiday in vegas.

it for me thinking about the typical network design in these large hotels.
I’m in the Conrad hotel, 59 floors and 59 rooms per floor.

would they have a couple of stacks of 48 port switches per floor, these going back to some blocks of dust switches in 2 comms rooms and a couple of core switches ? As well as a large wireless network ?

what would it look like? 

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

that sounds about right. 59 rooms per floor means 72 ports (3x24 or 1x48 + 1x24, and the ports for the wireless access points and controllers). The switches connect to aggregation switches (connected by fiber), and those are connected by fiber to core switches.

[carl_townshend]

I wonder what they are using here?

do you think they will have a core ? Or collapsed core ? I would imagine some 9400s as distribution connected to some 9500/9600s for core?

have you seen other hotels with similar setup ?

[paul driver]

Hello
I would assume the main comms/ core would be possibly ground floor or basement area, close to any ISP circuits coming into the building.

However, id imagine. there would be lot more than a couples switch per floor, If you think about it you have Guests, Staff and Facilities to contend with.

With all that goes on in such large hotels the IT service would be just like any large network ( Wifi, IoT, video/smart tv, mobile, telephony, conferencing, Front of house, lighting, security, lifts, etc, etc.)

[carl_townshend]

Hi Paul

i spoke to the tech guy here, they use Cornings sdlan gpon network, it uses fiber and copper in one cable apparently, never seen that before. 
it saves on cabling and you can get fiber to each access point and the copper powers the media converter at each one, I thought that’s pretty funky.

does Cisco do anything like this?

how would Cisco deal with a large hotel etc?, Cisco sda maybe? 
cheers