Webinar: Hotel Technology Infrastructure Prepared By: Darrin R. Pinkham, CHTP Mike Dickersbach,

CHTP

These are some of the questions we hope you will get answers to from today’s Webinar?

1. What are the proper ways to cable your property?

2. Why do you need proper cabling to make a property successful for the long term with ever changing technology requirements?

3. What are some of the trends with High Speed Internet that you should know about?

4. What circuits/connections are needed to make your infrastructure successful?

5. What protocols should you consider if you build the perfect technology infrastructure?

6. How many outlets is enough and where should they be located?

7. What wireless solutions will have all your guest’s loving the internet at your property?

8. How do you find the best partners to help you install the best infrastructure?

9. What are some of the other resources your might consider when researching Hotel Technology Infrastructure?

10. Q&A

Hotel Technology InfrastructureAgenda

Hotel Technology Infrastructure1. What are the proper ways to cable your property?

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Hotel Technology Infrastructure1. What are the proper ways to cable your property?

really good DOCUMENTATION is essential!

Hotel Technology Infrastructure2. Why do you need proper cabling to make a property successful for the long term with ever changing technology requirements?

Hotel Technology Infrastructure2. Why do you need proper cabling to make a property successful for the long term with ever changing technology requirements?

Cable Types - The Simple Answer: a. CAT-5 is rated to 100M (M=Megs) b. CAT-5e is rated to 350Megsc. CAT-6 and CAT6e is rated to 550M or 1000M depending on your

source d. CAT-7 is supposedly rated to 700M or presumably 1,000M

Categories of Unshielded Twisted Pair

Hotel Technology Infrastructure2. Why do you need proper cabling to make a property successful for the long term with ever changing technology requirements?

Category Speed Use

1 1 Mbps Voice Only (Telephone Wire)

2 4 Mbps LocalTalk & Telephone (Rarely used)

3 16 Mbps 10BaseT Ethernet

4 20 Mbps Token Ring (Rarely used)

5100 Mbps (2 pair) 100BaseT Ethernet

1000 Mbps (4 pair) Gigabit Ethernet

5e 1,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet

6 10,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet

Fig.1. Unshielded twisted pair

Hotel Technology Infrastructure2. Why do you need proper cabling to make a property successful for the long term with ever changing technology requirements?

Specification Cable Type

10BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair

10Base2 Thin Coaxial

10Base5 Thick Coaxial

100BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair

100BaseFX Fiber Optic

100BaseBX Single mode Fiber

100BaseSX Multimode Fiber

1000BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair

1000BaseFX Fiber Optic

1000BaseBX Single mode Fiber

1000BaseSX Multimode Fiber

Hotel Technology Infrastructure3. What are some of the trends with High Speed Internet that you should know about?

Mesh Networking - WiMax

Hotel Technology Infrastructure3. What are some of the trends with High Speed Internet that you should know about?

Standard Max Speed Typical Range

802.11a 54 Mbps 150 feet

802.11b 11 Mbps 300 feet

802.11g 54 Mbps 300 feet

802.11n 100 Mbps 300+ feet

Mesh Networking - WiMax

Hotel Technology Infrastructure4. What circuits/connections are needed to make your infrastructure successful?

Hotel Technology Infrastructure4. What circuits/connections are needed to make your infrastructure successful?

Redundancy!

Hotel Technology Infrastructure5. What protocols should you consider if you build the perfect technology infrastructure?

Are you going to go with VoIP/Analog/Digital/some Hybrid solution??? With Copper?, Fiber?, Hybrid?, etc…

Hotel Technology Infrastructure6. How many outlets is enough and where should they be located?

You can never have too many outlets…

Hotel Technology Infrastructure7. What wireless solutions will have your entire guest loves the internet at your property?

Hotel Technology Infrastructure8. How do you find the best partners to help you install the best infrastructure?

You need someone to connect the dots for you…

Hotel Technology Infrastructure9. What are some of the other resources your might consider when researching Hotel Technology Infrastructure?

AH&LA: Technology & e-Business Committee “Primer Series”:http://www.ahla.com/content.aspx?id=3630&terms=technology+primers

Hospitality Financial Technology Professionals:www.hftp.org

Hotel Technology Next Generation:http://www.htng.org/

International Society of Hospitality Consultants:http://www.ishc.com/

Hotel Technology Infrastructure9. Questions & Answers

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