Robust Surveillance and Disaster Prevention for Mori Building

Allied Telesis supports Roppongi Hills with an IP Surveillance Solution.

Roppongi Hills is the largest integrated urban property development in Japan. Frequented by a hundred thousand visitors and workers per day, more than 40 million people annually visit the Mori Tower Building, the core facility of Roppongi Hills.

Secure Surveillance, Safe Citizens

Roppongi Hills relies on high-performance systems, not only for facility control, but also for the management of power supply, information and communication, and disaster prevention, among others.

One of the essential systems is the Industrial TeleVision (ITV) surveillance camera solution. The Mori Tower alone has about 600 ITV cameras installed. A dedicated Gigabit network is used to transport images from those cameras to the disaster control center for monitoring. Systems like this provide comprehensive surveillance of the entire Roppongi Hills area.

The dedicated video surveillance network carries high-definition video continuously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This requires a network that features high availability, high bandwidth, ease of use, maintenance simplicity and excellent cost performance.

A Relationship Continues

Based on their previous experience using Allied Telesis network devices, Mori Building Co. chose Allied Telesis x900 Series advanced Layer 3 core switches. Using these switches enables them to increase network bandwidth and future-proof the network for the installation of higher-data ITV cameras later on. Three x900-24XT core switches were connected to the edge switches that were being used for the cameras. The connections to the x900 switches use link aggregation, connecting to provide redundancy and higher bandwidth.

Roppongi Hills keeps delivering a “future city” to the world, and Allied Telesis supports the safety and security of Roppongi Hills by providing a robust surveillance system network infrastructure.