Hospitality

Anyone who’s been in an airport security line lately knows one thing: lots of people are traveling with their laptop computers these days. While many are business travelers, more people are now taking their laptops with them for leisure trips. What they all have in common is a desire to stay connected with
clients, customers, the office and their families and friends at home.

In fact, hotel, resort and cruise ship guests often make decisions about where to stay in part based on the availability of broadband internet access – both in-room and across a facility. How can you provide an attractive solution for these potential guests without challenging your budget and disrupting your day-to-day operations? Going wireless may be just the answer you’re looking for.

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Using the NETGEAR® and Firetide™ solution, you can get Internet access and other services both indoors and out, in permanent and portable structures and across large distances, without spending a great deal of time or money. In just days, or even hours, you can deploy a secure, high-quality, inexpensive wireless solution across your entire site without disruption to your business or modifications to your property. Then you can entice more travelers with the promise of wireless Internet access, and you can increase your own day-to-day productivity using the same services your guests find so attractive.

A winning combination of products
The NETGEAR and Firetide solution combines NETGEAR ProSafe™ Wireless Access points and Firetide Hotpoint™ wireless mesh routers to deploy secure, manageable, high-performance, instant Wi-Fi networks. Ideal for public hot zones and private networks in the hospitality venue, where structured wiring such as Ethernet or fiber cable is too difficult or costly to install, the solution eliminates the need to wire access points all the way back to the network switch.

The result: a true plug-and-play Wi-Fi network that can be installed quickly and safely, anytime and anywhere. By connecting ProSafe Wireless Access Points to the Hotpoint mesh router’s Ethernet ports, the Wi-Fi connectivity can be made available wherever there is a power outlet-from lobbies and dining rooms to pool surrounds and convention floors.

Hospitality environments also have a high volume of transient traffic at all hours of the day and night. By deploying a wireless mesh infrastructure, you can now place IP surveillance cameras anywhere you want, indoors or outdoors, to greatly enhance security and guest safety with minimal
effort and cost.

Value
The NETGEAR and Firetide solution makes it possible for you to use wireless networking to reward your guests with an Internet-friendly environment, which helps attract customers as you extend the reach of your current wired network solutions.