Michael Sherwood, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, City of Las Vegas

The City of Las Vegas Is Creating a Platform for the Future

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How Juniper drives innovation in the largest private 5G network in the U.S.

Connectivity is the name of the game for Las Vegas as it forges a path to becoming a smart city showcase. Watch for details on how Juniper helps the city provide innovative amenities and last-mile services to the community.

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You’ll learn

  • How the private 5G network empowers community services like autonomous vehicle safety, street lighting, first responders, and education

  • How Juniper core switching, wireless, and AI capabilities help the city provide great service into the future

Who is this for?

Network Professionals Business Leaders

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Michael Sherwood
Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, City of Las Vegas

Transcript

0:07 Everything is built upon a computing foundation  really to provide efficiency as well as provide  

0:13 our residents and visitors with top quality  service. The innovation and technology  

0:18 department was the underpinning of making sure  everything within our purview of technology and  

0:24 innovation operates efficiently, not just for  our customers, but for our community at large. 

0:30 But we've drastically created El. Everything from  modernizing and having our street lighting system  

0:38 part of this network, we're able to understand  consumption, again, eye towards sustainability,  

0:44 eye towards the future, autonomous vehicle  safety systems that are providing real  

0:50 time crime data and information to our first  responders. So when we talk about empowering,  

0:55 we're not really just empowering a single  entity, we're empowering a community. 

1:00 So we're really using a ecosystem of  juniper's offerings, everything from  

1:06 core switching to wireless into other areas,  including AI capabilities. Using the whole  

1:12 foundational set to really help us not only  provide great service, but provide a platform  

1:19 that we can build on new services and offer  those to our departments and the community. 

1:23 One of the greatest achievements we've had is not  only our relationship with Juniper, not only the  

1:29 ability to partner with cutting edge technology  and solutions, but it's the same mindset on  

1:37 sustainability and with care about the communities  that we provide these solutions into that really  

1:44 make an impactful difference. Technology alone  is impactful, but when you have a like mindset  

1:51 about the environment, about sustainability,  about the future, and about providing solutions  

1:58 for individuals, that is the perfect, not only partnership, but combination  

2:03 for long-term success. No individual  ever does things alone. It takes a team,  

2:10 and we have a great team within the city of  Las Vegas and with our partners at Juniper.

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