{"id":830,"date":"2016-10-12T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/cio-interview-john-sullivan-cio-virgin-trains.html"},"modified":"2016-10-12T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:46:16","slug":"cio-interview-john-sullivan-cio-virgin-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/cio-interview-john-sullivan-cio-virgin-trains.html","title":{"rendered":"CIO interview: John Sullivan, CIO, Virgin Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Developing in-train entertainment<\/h3>\n

Another beginning introduced given Sullivan assimilated a association is a Beam app, that streams films, TV, games and magazines to users\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider we have superseded a airline party centre since we\u2019ve focused on a \u2018bring your possess device\u2019 model. Passengers don\u2019t buy magazines since they are all giveaway of assign on a party centre, as good as a whole garland of films, catch-up TV and about 12 games to play while you\u2019re on a trains,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a many overwhelming square of pack you\u2019ll have, and a fortitude on [smartphones] is most improved than what a airline uses in terms of a shade on a behind of a person\u2019s seat. We\u2019re gay to launch something like this in an attention that hasn\u2019t got a good repute in terms of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beam was launched in May 2016, and designed by a IT group during Virgin Trains. Partner GoMedia did a program development, and dual calm servers were rolled out on a trains. The use is not Wi-Fi based, so passengers are connected to these servers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a sight is in a tunnel, or if or we haven\u2019t got any Wi-Fi, it doesn\u2019t matter. It still works since a use uses a internal area network,\u201d Sullivan explains.<\/p>\n

Now Beam has been introduced, Virgin wants to rise a use by improving IT infrastructure on trains. Use of a stream infrastructure has already been maximised, though to offer a use to 700 customers, a limit series of passengers on a train, a set-up needs to be bolstered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re holding out a wire switches, entrance points and gateway, and putting in a latest technology. That will concede us to do a series of good things. For example, a sight could grasp what we call \u2018self-healing\u2019, so it understands if there\u2019s a problem such as a server wanting to be rebooted. It could learn what movement it would need to take,\u201d says Sullivan.<\/p>\n


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\u201c[With a improvements] we could offer a Beam concentration to everybody, since we now have a limitation of 200 people. We wish to make a large impact on a attention with a concentration on patron entertainment,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re on a two-hour tour from London to Manchester, it\u2019s going to feel distant shorter\u00a0if you\u2019re examination one of a latest films,\u201d adds Sullivan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plans for how Beam is going to rise has been defined, and Sullivan\u2019s group is in talks with a series of record companies to rise a infrastructure, that also partly relates to a grounds compulsory for a Wi-Fi project.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s some-more of a simple infrastructure plan in terms of replacing a cable. While we need record companies to assistance us, we also need a companies that say a trains to assistance us, and they are being really helpful,\u201d he says, referring to manufacturers such as Bombardier and Alstom.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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