The ever-growing bandwidth demands for hotel networks

Hotels need to give guests a homelike experience—where they can cuddle up with tablets and binge, binge, binge. See more trends and the networks needed to make them happen: http://bit.ly/HospBlog However, the success of on-property mobility depends on network bandwidth. That’s why more than half of hotels plan to spend more on technology this year, including network connectivity. Watch this Hospitality Expert Insight Series video and find out the latest hospitality network trends and solutions with essential insights from industry experts and innovators. [1] “2017 Travel and Hospitality Industry Outlook,” Deloitte Center for Industry Insights [2] “2017 Lodging Technology Study,” Hospitality Technology TRANSCRIPT As a traveler, I go to a hotel, I want to watch what I want to watch, I want to view what I want to view, and I want accessibility where I want accessibility, right. So that means I need more bandwidth to be able to stream the content that I want to watch. Everything that we're doing to create a more intelligent environment everything that we're doing to network every device and be able to track those devices is going to increase the bandwidth needs. And I think in terms of what's really important for the hotel or hotel brand to be investing in, it's not just the infrastructure and the bandwidth but is that combination of infrastructure, bandwidth, and software to manage that bandwidth but if you're not thinking today about where the silent traveler is going and their dependents both in terms of guests facing services as well as back up house services: housekeeping, restaurant, you know room service, all of that if you're not thinking ahead you're gonna miss the loyalty game because all of the messaging to the silent traveler is going to be dependent on a connection to the network and then the ability to engage via the other mobile device. As network planners we need to understand where the habits of guests are taking us, where the technology itself is evolving to, and then start to put a true analysis to how much that could mean, not just today to just consumption of bandwidth but tomorrow and years into the future.