Save costs, increase Internet uptime and bandwidth with WAN Optimization and Redundancy for the Hospitality Industry

These businesses are quickly realizing the many benefits of using the Internet to streamline services, share information and communicate with their customers. Hospitality services using the Internet to deliver their services are deploying powerful and sophisticated applications, while, the Internet infrastructure supporting them has become more vital with every passing year. Through the use of the Internet, business processes are being streamlined, business operations are becoming more efficient, costs are being reduced, and customers are receiving more immediate and more effective service. The Internet is improving the way hospitality services work.

However, deploying fast and reliable hospitality services over the Internet presents many technical and business challenges due to the underlying WAN infrastructure. As opposed to an organization's LAN, where network administrators have greater control, the WAN reliability and performance is for the most part, out of the network administrator's direct control. The issues they are confronted with include affordable and flexible scalability, network reliability, and the increase in the number of complex applications that overload WAN links, causing network congestion and bottlenecks. Adding to this are the compounding effects of service provider outages, which place added pressures on an already over-burdened IT staff.

Ensuring the reliable and fast delivery of critical applications that need to be continuously available, while providing optimum performance is critical to the success of any hospitality company. Users of these online services must have immediate access, as poor performance or inability to quickly access critical information such as hotel reservations, room availability and airline flight times can cause customers to go to a competitor.

Hospitality providers that rely upon the Internet should not rely on a single ISP or network connection, multiple Internet connections will ensure network uptime. For virtually any hospitality organization today, computer networks are tightly integrated into the business processes. These organizations are using the network to conduct business and communicate with business and individual customers, partners and employees beyond their LAN. The WAN is having an ever increasing role in supporting the automation of business applications such as registration, service ordering, ticketing, reservations, and communications using email and VoIP. Compound this with the reality that today's small-to-medium sized hospitality organization demands immediate and secure access has never been more of a concern, yet many sites today still lack the required WAN infrastructure to deliver the appropriate reliability, performance and security, and the need for an intelligent solution to manage multiple Internet connections becomes a top priority for most small-to-medium sized hospitality facilities in today's market.

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