Case Study: D4 Business Village Luzern achieves reliable, scalable 24/7 Wi‑Fi and simplified guest access with Cisco Meraki

How a large business centre modernised their IT with Meraki

D4 Business Village Luzern, the largest business centre in central Switzerland with over 100 companies and about 2,000 employees, faced declining throughput, poor scalability, and a cumbersome paper-based guest access process as device and user counts grew. To address these challenges they chose Cisco Meraki’s cloud‑managed networking solution, including indoor/outdoor 802.11ac access points, Meraki switches and the Meraki dashboard, for a highly secure, easily scalable network that fits their modern, service-oriented brand.

Cisco Meraki deployed APs and virtually stackable switches across the site and configured three SSIDs with Meraki-hosted branded splash pages, traffic‑shaping rules to throttle guest bandwidth, location heatmaps, and per-port controls — all in a three‑month rollout. The result: simple branded login for guests, prioritized business traffic (preventing guests from stalling bandwidth), real‑time monitoring and heatmaps to balance peak loads (e.g., lunchtime restaurant/outdoor use), flexible PoE and port scheduling, and reliable 24/7 service that significantly improved network performance and manageability for D4 Business Village Luzern.

D4 Business Village Luzern

Adrian Elmiger

Finance Manager