Project Overview

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is located in Philadelphia’s Historic District on Independence Mall. Seeking expertise in integration of data, voice, and video in a secure expansive environment. The new building represents a history of the Jewish people, from those who gave the early colonialists financing to continue the Revolutionary War, such as Robert Morris, to today’s successful Jewry in America. Its five story 100,000 SF design will be as remarkable as the data/voice/video capabilities of the site to manage both historic content and museum transactions.

Professional Systems Engineering (PSE) was selected to design all networks and remote services for wired and wireless networks, conferencing capabilities, exhibit data support for both high speed and wireless networks, and tele/data/video services. PSE was chosen to design and deploy technology for this special mission to herald the assimilation of Jewry into the United States.

PSE’s first task was to provide an assessment of existing networks, connectivity issues, information technologies transition to the new site, and recommend unified digital electronic communication platforms. This implementation of an “All Digital” site includes data/voice/video and conferencing using the latest secure appliance and network infrastructure that can handle both gift shop transactions and prevent denial-of-service attacks, as well as intrusion detection to any of the data equipment.

Our incoming services consulting required all bandwidth research, vendor transfer rate capabilities, Citrix-based VPN support, vmail-via-email support, network management, and operations support design.

Services Provided

Program Assessment
  • Broadband service requirements
  • QOS determination
  • “All-Digital” viability
  • Budget determination

Fire Protection Analysis and Renovations
  • Computer architecture design
  • High-speed fiber connectivity
  • Firewall specifications
  • Intrusion detection/ deterrence
  • Denial of service attack defense high-speed Citrix solution
  • Network operations design
  • High-speed secure wireless

Voice and Video
  • Full unified communication system
  • VoIP phone structure
  • Rich automated attendant features
  • Video/teleconferencing for direct meetings
  • Audio/visual support

Migration/ Implementation
  • Incoming service analysis
  • Network management system specification
  • Transition services
  • Vendor negotiation and contract management