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Pavilion Inn San Jose

Recent upgrade project: Pavilion Inn

Project Description
With a clientele consisting of tech-savvy leisure and business travelers, the Pavilion Inn needed a robust wireless network to provide free WiFi access in all guest rooms and suites, as well as the hotel’s public areas.

Our Solution
SF WiFi designed and installed a secure network that provided complete wireless signal coverage, high-speed Internet access, high user capacity, and rate limiting bandwidths for each guest. For a truly worry-free WiFi system, we also conduct remote monitoring, on-call troubleshooting/tech support, and routine maintenance to ensure the network is operating smoothly . With SF WiFi’s solution in place, the Pavilion Inn is able to offer
the high-tech amenities that visitors to Silicon Valley have come to expect, with a little something more.

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Pavilion Inn San Jose

Round Hill Country Club – Alamo CA

When it was time for a wireless network upgrade The Round Hill Country Club in Alamo Ca awarded SF WiFi the project.

The property features a 72 hole golf course, 48,000 square foot clubhouse, fitness area, pool, meeting rooms and spacious common areas

The SF WiFi wireless solution provides superior coverage, supports high user capacity and ease of use management features to simply support today’s mobile user.

SF WiFi specializes in wireless solutions in Northern Ca and beyond

Recent Projects: Pine Acres Lodge; Pacific Grove

Recent Projects: Pine Acres Lodge; Pacific Grove

The peaceful setting of Pine Acres Lodge accommodates visitors looking for a nightly rental, a vacation rental or investments in shared ownership. The 14 units range from a small, cozy Studio to a 2-Bedroom Town home big enough to accommodate 4-6 people.
Pine Acres understands the need for guest internet services and contacted SF WiFi for a wireless solution.
This project entails saturating the property with signal for all the units, and common areas. The limited access to cable installation also was a challenge. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, capacity and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has clients from Monterey to Lake Tahoe

Recent Project: Arena Hotel San Jose

The Arena Hotel features spacious guestrooms with floor plans from Deluxe King Rooms,
Double Queen Rooms, to Deluxe suites. The Arena Hotel is located within walking distance to downtown San Jose and HP Pavilion.

The Arena understands the need for guest internet services and contacted SF WiFi
for a wireless solution.

This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms,
and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, user
capacity and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user.
SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed,
installed and supports wireless in many of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels

arena hotel-entrance

The Pineapple – Symbol of Hospitality

The pineapple has been a universal symbol of hospitality and welcome for many centuries all over the world.

To the Caribbean’s, the pineapple symbolized hospitality, and the Spaniards soon learned they were welcome if a pineapple was placed by the entrance to a village. This symbolism spread to Europe, then to Colonial North America, where it became the custom to carve the shape of a pineapple into the columns at the entrance of a plantation.

Another story tells that New England ship captains would return from their journeys and would put a pineapple around people’s houses as a symbol of a safe return. The pineapple has such a unique style to it that it was often used as the centerpiece in food banquets. The pineapple remains the symbol of hospitality today. A warm welcoming sense that says you are welcome to come in.

At SF WiFi we have our own take on the Hospitality pineapple.

Hospitality Pineapple with MIMO WiFi

Hospitality Pineapple with MIMO WiFi
Hospitality Pineapple with MIMO WiFi

Hospitality Wireless: SF WiFi delivers complete wireless coverage

Whether providing the traveler a comfortable room, television entertainment, or continental breakfast, our clients consider great hospitality is paramount. A recent client, The Majestic Hotel of San Francisco, offers the gracious traditions of yesteryear and today. They realized one of the essentials of the modern traveler is having seamless, reliable, and secure access to the Internet but with the present down economy the hotelier required a wireless solution which didn’t exceed their budget.

 The Majestic Hotel contacted us about installing a more powerful and efficient wireless network than their existing system. They had been using a legacy wireless solution that had many issues including proper signal coverage. As a result, guests’ computers were constantly dropping off the Internet. This was causing the hotel to lose guests and lose revenue so they contacted SF WiFi to propose a guest wireless network solution for the 33,000 square foot property and we were awarded the project.

Hotel Overview

The Hotel Majestic was constructed in 1902 and is San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating hotel. With distinctive French bay windows, Edwardian styling with vintage architectural details and adorned with French and English antiques. The Majestic not only offers guest the gracious traditions of yesteryear but also provides the guest with all the modern essentials of today.

 Hotel Specs: The property consists of 5 floors, 58 rooms, café bar and restaurant and 2 meeting rooms. Guests were complaining that the wireless coverage was limited, connections and performance was erratic. Adding additional Wi-Fi access points (APs) was not an option because there was no way to extend ethernet cabling throughout the property. The Majestic needed an innovative solution that would satisfy customers without disrupting business or breaking their capital budget.

 SF WiFi gets the call – Project Requirements:

  • Wireless coverage throughout the entire hotel
  • Minimize the number of access points
  • Minimize, mitigate RF interference
  • Install AP’s where Ethernet can’t reach
  • Centralized and simplified management
  • Reduce install times
  • Self-configuring, self-tuning adaptive wireless
  • Reliable and stable with no support calls
  • Consistent performance

Project credits:
Denise Leong – Marketing

SF WiFi solution:

To work around and to minimize the need for additional ethernet cabling we designed a wireless mesh network. Under normal circumstances ethernet cabling is required for all conventional wireless equipment. The SF WiFi design solution implements a WLAN managed mesh network to extend wireless coverage into difficult areas. This design limited the amount of cable required, reduced costs and simplified the installation.   

 

Benefits:

  • Reduced capital costs by eliminating the need to run ethernet
  • Dependable Wi-Fi signal quality
  • Single Wi-Fi solution for entire hotel
  • Mesh design simplified AP placement (product feature)
  • Automatic interference avoidance (product feature)
  • Automatic failover and resiliency (product feature)
  • Wi-Fi coverage with fewer APs (product feature)
  • Utilized Power over Ethernet
  • One third the cost of “other” wireless product solutions

TripAdvisor ranks Stanford Terrace Inn #1 in Palo Alto hotels

TripAdvisor ranks Stanford Terrace Inn #1 in Palo Alto hotels.

The point of this blog? Wireless network installation at the Stanford Terrace Inn provided by SF WiFi.

In most hotels, the main concerns in designing a wireless solution are wireless signal coverage, network user capacity, user applications and of course budget.

SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions by installing faster, more reliable Wi-Fi services at a lower overall cost of ownership. SF WiFi designs, installs, and continues to support the wireless networks that keeps guests happy and satisfied.

A number one complaint of hotel guests is the lack of available and dependable Wi-Fi coverage. Wi-Fi has become an essential element and a major draw within the hospitality industry.

Stanford Terrace Inn – www.stanfordterraceinn.com

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