Airband Communications (News - Alert) is providing Arizona’s Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa with fixed wireless connectivity as well as a business continuity solution that includes a wired MPLS connection, creating network diversity and seamless failover.

The fixed wireless service to which the Hyatt Regency subscribes is 50mbps, but it can scale up to 170mbps. The hotel property spans 27 acres, includes more than 70,000 square feet of conference space, 36 meeting rooms and nearly 500 guest rooms. 

The hospitality vertical is a key area of focus for Airband, which provides services to more than 100 hotel properties in the U.S. As discussed in the Getting Vertical section in the upcoming August issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY, many hotels are seeking ways to meet the significant bandwidth demands of their own operations as well as of their business and leisure guests, especially for incremental, short-term scalability to support conventions and other events.

“Innovative hospitality companies are increasingly deploying fixed wireless Internet access services because they are vastly more scalable, faster to install and far more affordable than wireline solutions,” James DaBramo, executive vice president of sales at Airband, writes in the piece in INTERNET TELEPHONY, a TMC (News - Alert) publication. “And, because fixed wireless service delivers a true diverse path from the wired infrastructure for connecting to the Internet, and is immune to cable cuts and flooding, hotels and their convention centers enjoy a level of business continuity that cannot be provided with just wireline services.”

DaBramo in the article talks about connectivity trends and demands in the hospitality space and notes that the Extended Stay Hotels chain uses fixed wireless data connections at several of its properties because it gets six times the bandwidth for about the same cost as a couple of T1 lines. Extended Stay Hotels also avoids additional local loop fees because data is transmitted directly via the last mile, fixed wireless network, which bypasses local phone and cable infrastructure, he says.

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Edited by Jennifer Russell