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lcatel-Lucent Enterprise
(ALE) has announced that
the City Seasons Hotel
Deira has consolidated its
communications infrastructure with a
deployment of ALE high performance access
points to boost network availability and
management. The City Seasons Hotel is part
of the UAE-based Bin Ham Group, which
operates a number of hotels in key locations
in the UAE and Oman, and the deployment
was completed by ALE partner Siemcom.
Access to high quality Wi-Fi is among the
top priorities for travellers when choosing
their preferred hotel. It became imperative
for the City Seasons Hotel Deira to upgrade
its non-enterprise Wi-Fi points that lacked
the capability to provide secure login and
network management.
“We are excited that City Seasons Hotel
Deira has consolidated their communications
environment with complete voice, data
and Wi-Fi solutions from ALE. The latest
implementation has not only strengthened
our relationship, but also delivered
tangible return on investment, flexibility
and scalability to enhance their overall
communication system while improving their
customer experience,” said Manish Punjabi,
Channel Sales Manager – UAE & Oman, ALE.
The hotel deployed 180 high performance
802.11ac Wave 2 in-room Alcatel-Lucent
OmniAccess Stellar AP1201H WLAN Access
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Points for enhanced customer
experience, in addition to the
Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar
AP1221 WLAN Access Points for
common areas like the lobby,
restaurants and corridors.
“As an existing ALE voice
customer, we were familiar with
the high quality of solutions, and
after sales service. It was a natural
decision to choose ALE to meet our
network and Wi-Fi requirements
as well,” said Ahmed Mohamed,
Group CIO, Bin Ham Group. “After
replacing our legacy Wi-Fi system,
we now provide our guests with
faster, safer Wi-Fi access. This
has resulted in better ratings and
reviews on popular travel review
websites, which also encourages
more customers to choose to stay
with us.”
The OmniAccess AP1201H and
OmniAccess AP1221 are managed
by the Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista
2500 Network Management
System, the next generation
management suite.
It simplifies management for
IT teams with an embedded controller-
less architecture, providing user friendly
workflows for unified access together
with an integrated unified policy
authentication manager (UPAM) that
helps define authentication strategy and
policy enforcement for employees, guest
management and BYOD devices.
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