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Dusit Thani Dubai leverages Aruba to deliver complimentary, high-performance wireless Internet to guests

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DUBAI, UAE: In its on-going effort to maintain its position as an iconic 5 star hotel, offering the best service and experience to its guests, Dusit Thani Dubai has leveraged Aruba Networks' mobility controllers and wireless access points to provide secure high-performance wireless Internet access across the hotel's 321 rooms and suites, business centre meeting rooms and executive boardroom, and its 600-person capacity ballroom.

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The solution has helped the hotel meet the technological and financial challenges of providing its guests with complimentary high speed wireless Internet access. Dusit Thani touts flexibility, affordability and security as the key features of the solution, which also meets stringent Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards.

Bertram Shajiev, IT manager at Dusit Thani who was in charge of the technology decision process, said: "We realised that our network had to be both complimentary and wireless, so we knew we needed a solid platform."

Guided by Precedence Technologies, a UAE based IT services company, Shajiev was encouraged to visit sites that had deployed Aruba's network technologies. "Their solutions were extremely convincing and also very appealing from the financial perspective. The fact that Aruba does the wireless side for Lucent helped persuade us too," he said.

The project involved the installation of Aruba 3600 and 3400 mobility controllers, AP-93 access points in the hotel rooms and AP-105 access points in areas with higher user density such as banquet halls and public areas.

While Precedence Technologies managed to smoothly deploy the wireless network and integrate it with the newly laid out wired LAN infrastructure, unexpected interference arose due to the proximity of a 3G mobile phone antenna working close to the 2.4GHz WiFi frequency band. This problem was quickly resolved by leveraging Aruba's adaptive wireless technology.

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