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COMPANY OVERVIEW Chaminade is one of Santa Cruz’s finest 4 diamond resorts. It features a restaurant, spa, fitness center, pool, tennis courts and private hiking trails. The resort also sits atop a mountain and boasts beautiful views of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz mountains. With a recent $15 million dollar renovation, Chaminade is a luxurious destination for executive meetings and relaxing getaways alike. The resort is also the first business in Santa Cruz to receive a “Green Business Certification” for its environmental efforts. CHALLENGE Gunnar Amundson, the IT manager for Chaminade, decided that there needed to be an improvement in the network at the resort after struggling with wireless WAN issues for quite some time. He noted: “The main problem with the wireless WAN solution was a lack of redundant paths. When there was an equipment failure we had no internet service and had to wait for the repair to restore the service for our guests.” As it is essentially the industry standard to provide high speed internet to its visitors, Chaminade needed a cost effective solution to this problem. This began Amundson’s search for a solution that could provide the guarantee of high speed internet to the resort’s guests without fear of slow speeds or network downtime. This would be challenging, however, as Chaminade didn’t have many internet service options available because of its location. Amundson summarizes the problem when he says, “DSL isn’t an option due to proximity to the CO. Fiber is an option, but is too expensive for us to offer complimentary internet access.” Chaminade Resort CASE STUDY Luxurious four diamond resort ditches wireless WAN for faster and more consistent internet connection. IN BRIEF Industry Information Technology Challenge Replacing an aging wireless WAN connection. Solution Mushroom Networks Truffle. Benefits Redundancy of lines provides for high reliability. Bonding of multiple lines provides high bandwidth. SOLUTION Amundson and Chaminade Resort opted to implement a Mushroom Networks Truffle unit into their infrastructure to remedy the problems they were experiencing. The Truffle was utilized by bonding 3 business grade WAN circuits together in order to maximize bandwidth available as well as limit the down time guests experienced. When compared to the price of ordering a fiber line, the Truffle, hands down, provided for a much quicker return on investment, making it a much wiser investment.

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COMPANY OVERVIEW Chaminade is one of Santa Cruz’s finest 4 diamond resorts.   It features a restaurant, spa, fitness center, pool,  tennis courts and private hiking trails. The resort also sits atop  a mountain  and  boasts  beautiful  views  of Monterey  Bay  and  the Santa Cruz mountains.   With  a  recent  $15 million dollar  renovation, Chaminade  is  a  luxurious destination  for executive meetings and  relaxing getaways alike.   The  resort  is also the  first  business  in  Santa Cruz  to  receive  a  “Green  Business Certification”  for  its environmental efforts. 

CHALLENGE Gunnar Amundson, the IT manager for Chaminade, decided that there needed to be an  improvement  in  the  network  at  the  resort  after  struggling  with  wireless WAN issues  for quite  some time.   He noted:  “The main problem with  the wireless WAN solution was a  lack of  redundant paths.   When there was an equipment  failure we had no internet service and had to wait for the repair to restore the service for our guests.”   As it is   essentially the industry standard to provide high speed internet to its visitors, Chaminade needed a cost effective solution to this problem. 

This  began Amundson’s  search  for  a  solution  that  could  provide  the  guarantee  of high  speed  internet  to  the  resort’s  guests without  fear  of  slow  speeds  or  network downtime.   This would  be  challenging,  however,  as Chaminade  didn’t  have many internet  service  options  available  because  of  its  location.   Amundson  summarizes the problem when he says, “DSL isn’t an option due to proximity to the CO. Fiber is an option, but is too expensive for us to offer complimentary internet access.” 

Chaminade Resort   

CASE STUDY 

Luxurious four diamond resort ditches wireless WAN for faster and more consistent internet connection. 

IN BRIEF 

Industry Information Technology 

Challenge Replacing an aging wireless WAN connection. 

Solution Mushroom Networks Truffle. 

Benefits Redundancy of lines provides for high reliability. 

Bonding of multiple lines provides high bandwidth. 

SOLUTION Amundson  and  Chaminade  Resort  opted  to  implement  a  Mushroom  Networks Truffle  unit  into  their  infrastructure  to  remedy  the  problems  they  were experiencing.   The Truffle was utilized by bonding 3 business grade WAN circuits together in order to maximize bandwidth available as well as limit the down time guests  experienced.   When  compared  to  the  price  of  ordering  a  fiber  line,  the Truffle, hands down, provided for a much quicker return on investment, making it a much wiser investment. 

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CONCLUSION At a prestigious resort such as Chaminade, guests and business men/women  alike  expect  all  their  amenities  to  be  there  when  they  need them.   One  of  the most  important  nowadays  is  reliable  high  speed internet  for  meetings,  checking  email  and  contacting  family,  for example.   To be up to par with such high standards, a spotty internet connection  simply  isn’t  acceptable  which  is  why  the  Truffle  was implemented.    Amundson  makes  it  clear  that  both  the  setup  and continuing reliability of the product were both hugely positive aspects, making it the clear choice in internet bonding. 

“I liked that the Mushroom BBNA wasn’t just a load balancer, but bonded all the WAN’s bandwidth together. I evaluated other load balancers with the Mushroom BBNA and decided that the Mushroom BBNA was our best choice for increasing our bandwidth.”  

                     –Gunnar Amundson 

ABOUT MUSHROOM NETWORKS 

Mushroom Networks, Inc., is a privately held company based in San Diego, CA, providing patent pending Broadband Bonding solutions to a range of Internet connection applications. The company’s flagship product line targets SMBs, enterprises, multi‐ tenant buildings, and broadband service providers and bonds dissimilar broadband access technologies forming a single highly reliable broadband pipe that can easily scale based on needs.  

Mushroom Networks Incorporated  5703 Oberlin Drive Ste 208 San Diego, CA 92121 www.mushroomnetworks.com 858.452.1031