Hotel Management

In the hospitality industry, there is a fast growing need for speedy Internet access. About sixty-five percent of all business travelers carry laptops. Most of these travelers will choose a hotel based on its ability to deliver an always-on high-speed Internet connection, without having to dial-up.

In most cases, guests who leave their computers connected on-line for hours are tying up most hotels' telephone lines. Hotels have had to invest in additional equipment or rewire the building to support data traffic. These alternatives are costly, not to mention disruptive for normal business.

With our solution, an entire property can be set up for high-speed services from a single point of access in the building, with no re-cabling required. Easy set-up is particularly useful for hotels. The entire platforms are truly plug-and-play. A guest just connects an in-room adapter into a laptop's Ethernet port to link to the Internet. Automatic configuration eliminates a service provider's need to spend time helping each new end user get online; such features provide obvious conveniences for hotel guests.

Our solutions can also build web portal capabilities enabling a hotel to offer branded pages. With this ability a hotel can build a city-specific welcoming page that comes up when a guest launches the Internet. A hotel can generate increasing revenue from such a portal site by offering links to sites that provide places of entertainment, local maps or tickets to the theater, while gaining a percentage of "click-through" sales to those sites.

Property Owners and Managers

Property owners and managers can enhance property values and increase profits by offering broadband access with premium bundled voice and data services to tenants. This allows the service manager to create tiered service levels to satisfy tenant's needs by charging different rates for different service speeds, with the end users choosing what they want with a click of a mouse.

Residential owners could set up a portal for scheduling repairs or maintenance; commercial customers could develop a portal with any number of features specific to their business that can help surpass the competition. Services linked to local restaurants for a take-out food order via "click-through" referral fees, is an excellent example.
Advanced communication infrastructures are a value-added that helps attract and retain tenants. There's no disruptive time-consuming construction, cabling, or wiring necessary. Deployment is fast and capital outlay can be easily recovered.

Tenants

Whether you are a young, technologically elite individual with significant disposable income or a middle-aged novice in computers, people of all types are increasingly viewing broadband connectivity as a requirement for high-speed data communications, and multimedia content. Using MTU solutions, building tenants can enjoy high speeds and always-on connectivity via DSL technology, which is 20 to 50 times faster than dial-up analog modems, but at a price far less expensive price than traditional broadband access.

Communication services are all wide bandwidth with continuous streaming media traffic, transporting large applications, and automatically delivering users to the Internet when they launch their web browser with no need for configuration. Tenants get multi-service platforms that streamline user configuration, address management, traffic shaping and firewalling, and deliver service branding as well. They also can enable delivery of income-generating services such as broadcast-quality onsite video and voice-over-IP.