Competitive hotel chains know that fast, secure Wi-Fi can rank as high with their guests as a good night’s sleep. Behind the scenes, systems for check-in, key cards, parking, and more require high-performance connectivity and protection from evolving cyber threats. Increasingly, these systems are migrating to the cloud.
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Global hospitality giant IHG Hotels & Resorts is rising to these challenges by replacing its legacy hub-and-spoke network with a managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution from Fortinet. Set to roll out to thousands of locations worldwide, the solution is expected to bring significant cost savings to IHG, primarily due to the convergence of networking and security functions and greater network management efficiencies.
Watch Now“Fortinet provides me with a high-level view of what is going on at the property level from a security, infrastructure, network, and bandwidth perspective. Using FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer I am able to utilize all my toolsets and bring everything together centrally.”
– Malvin Eanes, Hotel Security Compliance Director, IHG Hotels & Resorts
15-month deployment thanks to centralized management
Forecast cost reductions of 25%
Forecast team efficiency boost of 60%
Forecast end-user satisfaction uplift of 30%
Reduced round-trip latency 30% out of the box
Improved security posture
Better able to meet cloud and mobile application requirements
Our partnership with HonorBuilt and our use of Fortinet solutions makes it very easy to put our same footprint in every restaurant. When the technology platform is as standardized as ours, a company can grow very quickly.”
- Jim Barlow, Director of IT, GPS Hospitality
Fortinet has a very easy-to-manage administration platform. In addition, the equipment’s features allow us to adapt them to our requirements very quickly.”
- Daniel Almeida, IT Manager, Salinas Maragogi and Salinas Maceió Hotels
With Fortinet we have not only found the best solution for our current situation, but also to make us fit for Wi-Fi and our network infrastructure for our future.”
- Tatiana Jardim, Brand Manager, Almanac Hotels
