Hospitality

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The Internet has revolutionized how the mobile workforce accesses information while away from the office, enabling them to keep up with customers and the office faster than ever before. To meet this need, hospitality providers started offering their customers high-speed Internet access in guest rooms a few years ago. Mobile workers have grown accustomed to this service very quickly, setting a new level of expectations for their stays. Currently, Internet access is considered as critical as plumbing and electricity in guest requirements, and hundreds of properties rely on Elfiq to deliver those services.

These days, should a hotel’s Internet link that serves guests fail, it could cost the hotel guest loyalty and regular income as a result. Business travelers have a critical need to connect to corporate applications such as email, VPN, shared documents and internal Web applications. Also, with new Internet-based applications like VoIP, Skype^TM, SlingBox^TM, BitTorrent^TM and YouTube^TM, user demand for existing bandwidth is increasing, and existing links can quickly get saturated.

Elfiq Link Balancers provide affordable, efficient multiple Internet link management to hospitality providers. With links from multiple sources on multiple technologies, Internet access uptime can reach 99.999%, ensuring connectivity to demanding business customers and guaranteeing multiple future stays by guests.

Cost reduction is also achievable by removing some more expensive links such as T1s and combining them with low-cost DSL or cable modems. Properties can deliver on the promise of constant and reliable Internet access while reducing monthly operating costs.

Feature	Description	Benefits
Core Technologies	Enable use of multiple ISP links	Provides a redundant telecom infrastructure More ISP links add more performance for WAN-based products Enables bandwidth provider diversification to prevent downtime Enables the use of low-cost links such as DSL and cable modems
LAN Failsafe	Continues operations with 1 ISP if the unit loses power	Even if the Elfiq unit is physically powered off, users and servers will continue operating through the primary link Even if the Elfiq unit is unavailable, guest Internet access continues
Time of Day	Configuration alterations based on time-met conditions	Promotes maximization of available bandwidth through time-based priorities Enables cost reduction through smarter allocation of ressources
Intelligent Condition verificator	Enables complex condition-based configurations	Existing configurations can be dynamically adjusted based on selected criteria Common usage includes usage of links based on cost, altering priorities based on link conditions or failure and statistics reset
High Availability	Redundant unit management	Enables maximum uptime for bandwidth availability
Traffic Segmentation	Distribute traffic for specific applications on selected links	Proactively configure bandwidth for optimal results Ensures key traffic is used on key links Prevents link saturation by low-priority traffic like peer to peer to be used on expensive links
QoS	Traffic promoting and limiting	Ensures key applications have enough reserved bandwidth on the selected links Prevents low-priority traffic from using bandwidth reserved for key traffic