| | 19TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY TECH OUTLOOKJULY - SEPTEMBER 2020Craig Corbintraffic would have to use our bandwidth. I simply mentioned that we have redundant 10 Gig pipes. When can we start? At a 1600 room luxury hotel, our guests have high expectations for service levels in all aspects of their stay. This certainly includes bandwidth, where it is very common to have 100 to 1000 Mbps at home. It can be pretty daunting to meet these expectations for thousands of guests at the same time. Borrowing from the ISP's oversubscription model, we will be able to offer similar bandwidth in either free or paid tiers. This approach will allow for high concurrency video streaming and immersive multimedia campaigns. Video continues to strain most hotels bandwidth and 4K video will only expedite the pressure. I felt it was very important to plan for this now and make a truly unique guest experience today and in the future.20 Gbps also gives you the ability to consider hosting video security systems or real time disaster recovery environments. Options allow me to be nimble and move at the speed my business needs me to move.Now that I have a superhighway, there is still work to be done, of course. I'm adding a second ISP to provide additional redundancy--a direct request from recent meetings and convention groups. I'm currently in the process of upgrading the aging WiFi to a pervasive WiFi infrastructure that will allow me to move this bandwidth to any area of the hotel and the flexibility to address business requests quickly. I'm adding beacons to the WiFi deployment to prepare to take advantage of applications that would benefit from geolocation data. During my co-location renewal, I'll evaluate the benefits of splitting hyper converged nodes between the property and my ISP's data center. My intention with these infrastructure upgrades is to provide a tool for our Sales and Convention Services departments to market to a wider array of clients.I'm looking forward to the day I get the following phone call:Hi Craig, this is "a Fortune 500 Company," we were considering your hotel as a possible location for a new product launch with live streaming. We have some significant requirements about bandwidth for the event.Hello, "Fortune 500 Company," I can offer you up to 10 Gig on redundant ISPs. Welcome to Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Building a foundation with the acquisition of large pipes has a ripple effect, providing a myriad of options in how we approach other challenges
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