"Lanit" presented the Pushkin State Museum named after A.S. Pushkin Wi-Fi-equipment

2022: Wireless Internet Hardware Update

In 2021, the leadership of the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (MMII) asked LANIT to help provide all the main buildings of the museum with wireless Internet. LANIT responded to the request and presented the museum with equipment for a full-fledged Wi-Fi network. An important condition for cooperation was the transfer of devices that used to work at the State Museum of Fine Arts to other branches of the museum for reuse.

The museum has been equipped with Wi-Fi since 2015. The equipment is already outdated, according to some models, the manufacturer has stopped updating the software. In addition, due to lack of funds, the museum acquired budget equipment that is not intended for high loads in the corporate segment.

A high-speed Wi-Fi network is very important for the museum, since it is impossible to conduct a structured cable system in many rooms and halls due to the lack of cable channels in old buildings. Wi-Fi is used to verify the validity of visitors' tickets using mobile readers, to work as points of sale for souvenir products. The network helps to ensure the operation of multimedia equipment in the halls of the museum, the loading of audio guides, the work of media guides with augmented reality elements, and children's classes. Wi-Fi is required to organize online broadcasts of events, streams, and the work of the reading room of the museum library.

LANIT provided the museum with 113 Wi-Fi points, four, switchboard necessary. licenses The museum plans to cover the Main Building, the Gallery of Art countries Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries, the Department of Personal Collections, the Memorial Apartment of S.T. Richter, the Museyon Center for Aesthetic Education, and the workshop of E. Steinberg. Due to the supplied equipment, the speed of Internet access will increase significantly. In addition, LANIT employees help the museum optimally place points in the halls, which will increase the coverage area of ​ ​ the network.

Wi-Fi is very popular in the museum: we have from 2000 to 5000 connections to the guest segment per month, including several hundred from foreign rooms. We have installed only ten access points in the administrative building. The main task is to establish the remaining points in the halls of the museum. There are problems - current points are not set optimally, plus problems with fasteners that are not compatible with each other, said Sergey Dobrokhotov, deputy director of the Pushkin State Museum for Information Technology.

A Wi-Fi network in such a complex facility as a museum is an extremely interesting task. Due to the peculiarities of the building, the equipment cannot be placed where it would be optimal, so you have to come up with different solutions. Fortunately, the LANIT group of companies has high-quality equipment and professionals who can solve almost any problems. Together with the museum specialists, the migration plan was developed so as to introduce a new network with a gradual transfer of functionality and without the need to close the museum for a long time for work, noted Nikita Ivanov, Director of Business Development CompTek (part of the LANIT group).

Earlier, LANIT, with the support of Treolan, presented the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts with a batch of laptops. The technique closed the hot needs of employees working from home. Laptops were provided to guides, researchers, employees of the regional directorate, marketers, employees of the financial and economic bloc. In addition, LANIT supplied the museum with the equipment necessary to organize safe remote work. Obtaining reliable remote access to all internal digital resources of the Pushkin Museum by employees allowed, in particular, to quickly prepare new online projects and excursions.