Arora Hotels
Why Arora Hotels booked us for an extended stay
With the UK’s largest national Next
Generation Network, we were in a unique position when Arora Hotels
asked us for help. Arora Hotels already had six hotels across the
UK. It came to us for the installation of state-of-the-art telecoms
for its guests throughout its latest venue, the Sofitel London
Heathrow, at Terminal 5.
Our technical people and
engineers recommended and went on to build a high-speed Managed
Internet Access solution. Perfect for meeting the high expectations
of today’s guests, because long gone are the days of upplying a
room with just an Ethernet socket and a phone.
Overnight and conference guests expect
to find fast and reliable internet access and operate as if they
were in their own office. With a Managed Internet Access solution
there’s less worldwide wait and more emails, internet phone calls
and surfing.
Happy with the results at the Sofitel
London Heathrow, we were asked to connect all of Arora’s other
hotels with our IPVPN solution. Now the business enjoys high
security with guaranteed high speeds. So emails, documents, video
conferencing and data now all flow over one network.
The Sofitel London Heathrow.
Preparing it for take off
Arora Hotels’ new £180 million
flagship hotel recently opened at London Heathrow Terminal 5. With
its convenient airport location, it was set to be an ideal
conference hotel for many business people and companies.
There could soon be quite literally
thousands of people in the hotel needing to be online at the same
time. They needed a company that had the expertise to meet these
demands and deliver within budget and on time, ready for the grand
opening.
Since we own the UK’s largest national
Next Generation Network, the hotel group approached us. It’s a
network that could easily cope with the demands of high quality
video and data services, both for the hotel’s staff and its
guests.
Up for a challenge
We accepted the challenge and set our Account Management team
the task of working hard with our designers, engineers and Arora
Hotels to ensure the project ran to schedule.
Our experts recommended and installed
a high bandwidth 100Mbit/s Managed Internet Access solution, along
with wireless access throughout the hotel and wired connections in
all the rooms.
With the service’s high capacity and
reliability, guests could all be doing a variety of things online
at speed, like emailing or video conferencing. All this was done on
time, to budget.
We’d like to think we helped in some
small way in the hotel winning the recent accolade of ‘Best New
Business Hotel in the World’ at the Business Traveller Awards.
The success at the Sofitel London
Heathrow led to us installing the WAN (Wide Area Network) that now
hooks up all of the Arora Hotels venues across the UK. Within
months they were all connected up to an IPVPN, secure and ready for
the future.
