Circa Resort and Casino Standardizes on Aruba to Deliver Transcendent Guest Experiences

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced that Circa Resort and Casino, the first new downtown Las Vegas hotel and entertainment venue in over 40 years, has selected an end-to-end Aruba ESP-based network to deliver unique, immersive and engaging experiences at the 35-story, 777-room sports-themed property, as well as to satellite locations throughout Nevada, Colorado, and other jurisdictions, while saving nearly half a million dollars.

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Circa Resort and Casino, downtown Las Vegas' newest hotel and entertainment venue, has selected an Aruba ESP-based network to deliver unique and immersive guest experiences. (Photo: Circa Resort and Casino)

To create an energetic and transcendent atmosphere that draws on the original spirit of Las Vegas and updated for the digital age, Circa is using a combination of Aruba’s wired, wireless and security solutions to provide the performance and bandwidth required to power its unique amenities. This includes the Stadium Swim, a pool deck with amphitheater-style lounging terraces facing a 143-foot video display, and a three-story Sportsbook, featuring a 78 million pixel video display divided into 42 screens with a 1,000-person viewing capacity.

In collaboration with trusted integration partner Evotek, Circa evaluated prominent networking competitors including Cisco, Juniper, and Ruckus, as well as Aruba, to gain an intelligent, reliable, and flexible network. Ultimately, Aruba offered the most comprehensive, automated solution for helping Circa bring its hospitality vision to life.

“Delivering today’s socially driven premier entertainment experiences in Las Vegas is a 24/7 endeavor,” said Paul Ballard, CIO at Circa. “Aruba supplied the full stack of AI-enabled wired and wireless networking innovations essential for running a successful operation.”

Working with Evotek, Circa deployed a future-ready wireless network comprised of Aruba’s Wi-Fi 6 indoor access points (APs), outdoor APs, hospitality APs, and mobility controllers. For wired networking, Circa implemented Aruba’s aggregation switches at the edge and CX Series switches in the data center.

Beyond enabling onsite multicasting, Circa is providing modern in-room experiences such as connected lighting and IP TVs. “Deploying Aruba’s wireless to guest rooms not only addresses user expectations, it also saved us nearly $500,000 versus installing a gigabyte passive optical network (GPON),” said Ballard. “Aruba’s licensing model was also significantly more attractive.”