IVCMedia Supplies AV & IT Infrastructure for Cape Verde Beach Resort and Spa

January 2010: Leading systems integrator IVC Media, has today announced it has been contracted to design and build a state-of-the-art centralised AV, IT, resort security and access control management infrastructure using the latest fibre technology for the new luxury Tortuga Beach Resort & Spa in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa. Owned by the Resort Group, reputed to be the largest hotel resort group on the planet, the Tortuga Beach complex will consist of 52 villas, 306 apartments and 14 hotel guest rooms. The £1.1 million IVC network will provide multiple services to the resort including: fast internet access, standard or multiple channel high definition TV capabilities, video on demand, telephony, fire detection, a door entry systems and CCTV all controlled by a remotely monitored, centralised management system. “IVC Media’s experience implementing some of the world’s leading AV and IT installations will allow us to supply and install every element of a complete working unified communications system for the entire Tortuga Beach Resort & Spa that is easy to manage and maintain,” confirms Ray Harding, managing director of IVC Media. “By implementing the latest fibre backbone technology we have been able to realise the Resort Group’s Directors’ vision of a future-proofed, high bandwidth capacity network that supplies multiple services to numerous dwellings while maintaining optimum performance.” “We chose IVC Media because of the company’s vast experience in the installation of large AV and IT projects and the clear understanding of our customers’ needs,” confirms Andrew Lawson, development & construction director of The Resort Group. “The innovative use of fibre technology is new to the hotel and resort industry and will ensure each of our dwellings has a downstream capability of over 2 Gbit/s. This is way beyond the capacity of a standard broadband system and will ensure we have the bandwidth for the interactive services of the future.” The IVC system will take advantage of a GPON (Passive Optical Network) which is a point-to-multipoint, fibre-to-the-premises network architecture using optical splitters deployed across the resort site. In this way, a single optical fibre will be used to serve multiple premises, reducing the amount of fibre and central office equipment required compared with a point-to-point architecture. Construction at the 74,843 m² Cape Verde Tortuga Beach Resort & Spa is now underway with a passed completion date where the first villas will be handed over in March 2010