The Gardens Casino has announced the opening of a new $90 million, 200,000
square foot, state-of-the-art venue with superior card tables, an upscale bar and
lounge, premium restaurant, 12,365 square foot event space and an innovative
HARMAN Professional Solutions AV delivery system. To provide guests and
employees with maximum access to satellite TV, player tournament lists, jackpot
announcements, dealer rotations and promotional signage, the facility turned to
HARMAN’s AMX SVSI system (http://www.amx.com/svsi/), which
distributes 30 media inputs to 220 screens throughout the property, easily assigning
any signal to any TV, anytime with the simple touch of an iPad.
“The ease of the platform is seamless and extremely simple to manage,’ said Ron
Sarabi, General Manager of The Gardens Casino. “It gives bartenders and floor
managers, people outside the IT department, the ability to change channels and
manage media feeds directly from their stations. Using any of our six iPads, our
staff can accommodate programming requests almost instantaneously.’
The AMX SVSI Networked AV Digital Media Distribution and Switching solution uses
industry standard IP networking to deliver the most scalable, flexible, cost-effective
and easily controlled solution available for connecting media from any number of
sources to any number of destinations, within a room, across an enterprise, such as
The Gardens Casino, or around the world.
AMX SVSI was introduced to The Gardens by veteran gaming and hospitality AV
integrator Bill Miller of Reliable Security Sound and Data, who served as a
consultant and integrator on the project. Miller recognized inefficiencies in the
media distribution system at the casino’s former location. “They relied on local
programming and DirecTV channels assigned to specific monitors. The system was
cumbersome for the staff and inconvenient for guests, who were tied to specific
areas of the casino in order to view their choice of content,’ said Miller. “Our
company was a very early adopter of the AMX SVSI technology and had previously
designed and installed systems in two New York casinos. The flexibility of the
system has tremendous appeal and was an ideal fit for The Gardens facility.’
“The industry regards The Gardens Casino as a technology leader,’ added Sarabi.
“We’re proud to be the first gaming facility in the region to install AMX SVSI
technology. It allows us to better serve the thousands of guests who come through
our doors each day and to optimize viewing opportunities in our expanded space.
No longer managing dozens of DirecTV boxes and remote controls has made our
work easier and more efficient.’
The Gardens Casino project was built using N2000 hardware on a physically
separate network, using Cisco switching hardware and fibre uplinks between
Intermediate Distribution Frames (IDFs). It is currently being expanded to include15
additional inputs.
