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Multi-Use, Multi-Revenue Networks for the Hospitality Industry

One of the most requested guest amenities in hotels today is high speed Internet access HSIA. Pressured by the pains of travel and the need to be more productive, guests are rating HSIA among the top amenities they seek in a hotel. HSIA has therefore become a must-have in the...

Tags: Internet Access, Network, Nomadix Inc., Industry, High-speed Internet Access, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications

White papers 2005-06-14

Integrated LAN-WAN Switching for High Speed Internet Access

Today’s technologies offer the ability to design a data communication environment based on switching technology that integrates LANs and WANs to achieve high performance, cost-effective networking solutions. This Guide examines the issues involved in integrating LANs and WANs, highlights developments that have created a synergy between these previously disparate...

Tags: Internet Access, Environment, High-speed Internet Access, WANs, LANs, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 1997-01-01

WNYCS Enables Hotels to Offer Guests Reliable, High-Speed Internet Access

Buffalo Lodging Associates owns and manages operations for 25 hotels on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in Florida. The company wanted to better serve its corporate guests by offering fast, reliable, high-speed Internet access at no cost. It found that traditional solutions for this service were often unreliable,...

Tags: Internet Access, Hotel, High-speed Internet Access, Cisco Systems Inc., WNYCS, Buffalo Lodging Associates

Case studies

Grand Hotel Europe Goes Wi-Fi

The Grand Hotel Europe has launched Wireless Internet Access, known as wireless fidelity or Wi-Fi, which is available throughout the hotel including all guest rooms, conference and public areas. This project has been developed in collaboration with Peterstar, the largest St. Petersburg based Internet Service Provider, and Cisco Systems, Inc....

Tags: High-speed Internet Access, Cisco Systems Inc., Grand Hotel Europe, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Internet, Wireless

Case studies

Chicago Luxury Apartments Reach New Heights; Cisco Partner RMS Implements Cost-Effective High Speed Internet Access for All Units

Grand Plaza is a new 764-unit luxury high-rise apartment building occupying a very desirable square city block bounded by Ohio, State, Grand and Dearborn in downtown Chicago. The architect and co-developer of the building wanted to offer something other upscale buildings in the area were not: high-speed Internet access from...

Tags: Internet Access, High-speed Internet Access, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Grand Plaza, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security

Case studies

Additional Resources

Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout

One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers...

Tags: Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Photograph, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-07

102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age

This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...

Tags: Event, Camera, Amateur, Documentary, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-07

1,500 ships to fight climate change?

According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air. This project would require the deployment of a worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships to...

Tags: Droplet, Vessel, Cloud, Ship, Wiki, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions

Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. A few weeks ago...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, Client, Web Site, Workflow, Iceberg, Collaboration, Groupware, Web Site Development, Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Internet, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg for students: developing made simple

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the enterprise side of Iceberg, check the post over at Enterprise Alley (that's right readers, I'm cheating on you). Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Server, Iceberg, Cynicism, Channel Management, Storage, Web 2.0, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is

Across the 17 global markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, says Synovate. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. 26% across the markets surveyed are members...

Tags: Internet User, Internet, Network, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-06

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With DiggingThere are better ways to monetize and support great news writersThe problem, as I see it, is that News hasn't really found its "business voice" in the internet. Sure, news is powerful and one of the main things people do online. And,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, public relations, media

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...

Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.

National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

BlueAnt V1

We've grown to be pretty big fans of BlueAnt headsets over the past year, especially with the BlueAnt Z9 and the BlueAnt Z9i. Both Bluetooth headsets impressed us with excellent sound quality, while the Z9i improved upon the original with extra features like better audio and the addition of multipoint...

Tags: earpiece, BlueAnt, headset, BlueAnt Z9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the...

Tags: Notebooks, Netbooks, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp., Mini 9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

From meme to paperback: Barack Obama is your new bicycle

Besides Chuck Norris, and the Rickroll, Internet memes rarely go mainstream. But San Francisco native Matthew Honan managed to accomplish that feat — he built a simple website that randomly display acts of kindness from presidential candidate Barack Obama. Honan...

Tags: Bicycle, Web Site, Web Site Development, Internet, Web Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging the Chrome team on a daily basis.

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Google, Chrome, Sergey Brin, browser, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, tabs, web, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz, Mac, Linux

Videos 2008-09-05