GEC NEWS WIREVTA Chooses Allied Telesis CMS Solution, Upgrading Digital Signage Technology with RTI, Enhancing Customer Experience for Super Bowl 50
Allied Telesis was chosen by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to design, deploy and support a unique digital signage solution for its light rail platforms throughout Santa Clara County. The 30 real-time information (RTI) signs went into service in mid-December and are serving passengers well.
According to Mark Brûlé, Chief Application Architect, Allied Telesis, “The latest solution that we developed for VTA incorporated products from a variety of leading technology vendors. The CMS was installed in an Allied Telesis EtherGRID-DC deployment in VTA’s data center as well as EtherGRID-Mini solutions at each sign to cache content and drive the display.”
Using the full-featured CMS from Allied Telesis, VTA is able to schedule content for display on the signs, manage the network that delivers that content using the Allied Telesis AlliedWare Plus Operating System. Richard Bertalan, Technology Manager at VTA, added, “A Bay-Area IT networking leader, since the early days of Silicon Valley, we knew that by working with Allied Telesis to run the CMS communications applications on the backbone of its resilient network infrastructure, we would have a winner for VTA, its thousands of regular passengers and the tens of thousands of football fans projected to converge in Santa Clara County for Super Bowl 50.”
