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Holiday Inn

Relax, there's a WWWT Wireless Connection

An American classic, Holiday Inns have served as a backdrop to family vacations and welcomed legions of weary road warriors over more than five decades. Even the towels have become icons with their distinctive green stripe. But if you happen to stay at the Bluefield, West Virginia Holiday Inn, you'll get more than just a pleasant room and swimming pool during your stay. You'll also have broadband Internet access in your room and in the hotel's conference areas delivered to you by a wireless mesh network from WWWT^TM .

Holiday Inn is a member of the InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns, manages, leases or franchises more than 3,500 hotels in nearly 100 countries. The Holiday Inn of Bluefield is tucked away alongside mountain foothills in West Virginia, providing access to scenic beauty and a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities for guests. Long committed to delivering high value for customers' lodging dollar, Holiday Inn wants to add wireless Internet access capabilities to its venerable hotel chain. And the Holiday Inn in Bluefield found itself mulling over five different proposals from local networking services companies to install it.

Hotel Overall Layout

           Get Away and Get Online

Guests now have access to the Internet from everywhere on the hotel's grounds, enabling them to quickly find information about local sights and events, plan their next day's travel, or check in at home or with the office. The wireless network does more than simply provide convenience. It cost-effectively supports Holiday Inn's commitment to providing leading-edge amenities and high value for traveler's budgets.

Truly an Advantage

ABEO Corp. proposed its "Truly Wireless" solution, based on WWWT HotPoint^TM Wireless Mesh Routers. The company proposed HotPoint Wireless Mesh Routers connecting to a gateway controller and a DSL broadband connection that was separate from the hotel's existing Internet connection. This would assure a high level of security and performance, while enabling ABEO technical staff to monitor the network remotely if necessary.

"WWWT gave us an advantage in our selling efforts," said Buxton. "For the first time, we had a truly wireless solution and something different to offer. The hotel management loved the solution because it enabled them to meet the Holiday Inn's requirement for deploying wireless access with minimal disruption."

The hotel layout required 18 access points to provide full wireless coverage of the entire building. So rather than running cable and fiber to each access point, ABEO simply placed 10 HotPoint mesh routers throughout the hotel to provide Ethernet service over a wireless backhaul. One HotPoint unit is located in the administrative office and connects to a controller gateway for DSL access. Another unit is in the cafe area. Two HotPoint units are installed in conference rooms and six more are installed in the two guest room wings. Each HotPoint unit has three Ethernet ports and ABEO used these to connect the access points to the mesh. In just two days, the WWWT network delivered Internet access to all 134 guest rooms, two conference rooms, the office and the pool area.