The Durham Hotel was built within a gutted, mid-century former bank building in the city of Durham. When evaluating the hotel's needs, the management team knew it needed a solution that would adapt to the limited amount of space available to house the hotel's network infrastructure. It also required a network that worked with its property management and security systems.
"When planning for the hotel, my goal was to maximize my technology offerings while limiting the amount of equipment a high-speed rollout would require," said Spitzer. "Traditional hospitality technology implementations require a closet on every floor to house switches, cables and other large hardware. With Zhone's FiberLAN solution, I have less equipment to hide, which means we were able to put a linen or supply closet on every floor which reduces service response times to our guests."
Throughput of 100 Megabits to Each Guest Room
Hosted America, a North Carolina-based cloud services integrator, recommended Zhone's FiberLAN solution, a next-generation Optical LAN solution, because it has the ability to deliver high-speed data, voice and video to multi-level, multi-unit facilities. Zhone Technologies and Hosted America collaborated to create a network that allows a throughput of 100 megabits to each guest room and is built on an aggregation platform that can be expanded as the hotel grows. The case study outlines the following aspects of the deployment:
- Using Zhone Technologies' access and aggregation platform equipment, Hosted America designed a high-speed, large-scale network that delivers triple-play services to each guest room.
- Integrating VoIP with The Durham Hotel's property management platform provides an "all-in" technology platform that supports voice, video, Internet, Wi-Fi, security and audiovisual.
- DISH Network's smartbox hospitality solution provides guests with high-speed live satellite television programming. The system provided significant space savings within each room and throughout the hotel in comparison to traditional cable platforms. The smartbox can output up to 96 HD channels from a single compact box instead of having a residential set-top box for each HD channel in the hotel.
"With Zhone's solution coupled with DISH's smartbox satellite TV option, I'm essentially future-proofing the infrastructure and LAN environment while maximizing the technology within the hotel," said Spitzer.
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