Resorts World Las Vegas is a recently buit resort on the Last Vegas Strip. The near 88-acre property sits on the grounds of the former Stardust Resort and Casino, boasting 3,506 guest rooms and suites in three distinct hotels, over 40 world-class food and beverage outlets, a 5,000-capacity theatre, a two-story dining and retail promenade and connectivity with an AV-over-IP system featuring Visionary-powered networked audio and video.

“Resorts World Las Vegas has built what is probably the largest AV-over-IP network of its kind,” reports Scott Freshman, chief operating officer for Visionary. “The size and scope of the project brought together multiple AV integrators, each of whom took on specific areas of the massive venture. It’s unique to have this many integrators who were once competitors coming together to put this wonderful project together.”

Technology West Group of Las Vegas was selected to oversee the project. Richard Reisig, vice president for Technology West Group, has worked directly with Resorts World Las Vegas, and hi has assured that “the network at Resorts World Las Vegas includes over 2,000 PacketAV endpoints and 2,000 QLAN channels. It’s a very large, purpose-built network designed to supply one gigabit of non-blocking bandwidth, end to end, to any location on the property with less than a millisecond of latency.”

Visionary created a Bluetooth-enabled wall plate encoder implemented throughout the system. The Encoder combines 4K UHD video and Dante/AES67 audio embedding and de-embedding over a single gigabit Ethernet port. It supports bi-directional smartphone connectivity for soft-codec web conferencing AV integration to eliminate the need for separate bridging hardware.

Each guest room in the resort features an AV system designed by One Touch Living. “Our goal was to create an environment that enables guests to interact with the rooms and the property. Visionary eliminated the need for a conventional HDBaseT matrix. Visionary allowed us to network from anywhere to anywhere,” assured Corey Brushia, president of One Touch Living.

National Technology Associates was selected for the integration in the resort’s first-floor common areas — including the hotel lobbies, registration, casino and gaming areas and underground levels. “One of the largest challenges of this project was the scale. The property has nearly 2,000 video end points and thousands of loudspeaker channels. I’m not sure it’s possible to distribute those components in any way other than networking,” has commented hane Snell, project manager for National Technology Associates.

The 5,000-capacity immersive theatre from the Resort was created by Scéno Plus, a Montreal-based theatre design firm, and Solotech was selected for the technology integration. Sébastien Larose, AV designer for Scéno Plus, adds “We have over 150 televisions in the theatres. The ability to put the content onto the network and run a single CAT5 cable allows us to simplify the system.”

Being the first, Resorts World Las Vegas has the aim to create the most technologically advanced resort experience in the city. Visionary solutions have allow the Resorts to achieve flexibility and an immense networked AV matrix at a fraction of its usual cost.