Enhanced Performance, Redundancy Contribute to a Better
And More Productive Guest Experience

Relationships with Velocity and FatPipe Networks Offer Hoteliers the Flexibility
Of a Cap-Ex or Leased Business Model

Between meeting groups and individuals traveling for business or leisure, hotels can expect their bandwidth demands to only increase in the future. Since the beginning of this year, LodgeNet has helped a broad range of hotels cost effectively increase their available bandwidth through bandwidth aggregation solutions.   

Bandwidth aggregation involves maximizing the effective bandwidth of a hotel’s wide area network (WAN) by using advanced, intelligent technologies to combine multiple Internet connections and dynamically balance traffic across those connections. LodgeNet is partnering with two leaders, FatPipe Networks and Velocity, in the field of bandwidth aggregation.

Velocity’s “Total Solution” provides and aggregates disparate networks (DSL, cable, T1, etc.) with its signature product, VBand. “Total Solution” incorporates V-Select, Velocity’s On-Line Interactive Portal for Bandwidth, Ping, SLA and “Network-at-a-glance” reporting, to name a few, as well as trouble tickets and billing, all without any capital expenditure. FatPipe Networks offers its proprietary, hardware based router clustering technology under a purchase model. With either solution, hoteliers can enjoy these benefits:

• Redundancy.  If one connection fails, another capable connection is live and available to keep guests connected and productive while they’re on the road.
• Bandwidth availability.  Fully leveraging the capability of all available circuits results in increased available capacity for guests who need it.

“Bandwidth costs are settling down, but the need for additional capacity in the short term – along with redundancy and failover capabilities – make bandwidth aggregation an excellent strategy for cost conscious hoteliers,” said David M. Bankers, Senior Vice President Product & Technology Development for LodgeNet. “Working with FatPipe Networks and Velocity, we have the flexibility to offer hoteliers a tested and proven solution, whether they prefer a purchase or lease model.”

LodgeNet invites attendees of the upcoming HITEC 2010 trade show in Orlando to visit them at Booth #609, June 22-24.