Build or Refresh the WLAN
Don’t gamble with your wireless network; enhance guest experience with an efficient and reliable WLAN.
- Building or refreshing your venue’s WLAN can be a costly project, and as a result, obtaining stakeholder buy-in becomes a difficult task.
- The ability to offer Wi-Fi has become crucial for success in the gaming and hospitality industry: Wi-Fi is no longer an “amenity,” but expected as a standard offering at hotels. Your guests expect the capability to stay connected to their regular lives regardless of where they are.
- The hospitality and gaming sector faces high density and compliance challenges that are generally unmatched by other industries. On average, every four guest rooms is equivalent to a 4,000 sq. ft. house, but holds 8 guests and 24 devices surrounded in close proximity above, below, and around other rooms.
- Building or refreshing your venue’s WLAN requires careful planning to prevent re-work, ensure guest needs are met in the most cost effective way possible, and minimize disruption caused by installation.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Supply your stakeholders with historical network usage and capacity data when making the case for a WLAN build or refresh in order to provide a benchmark and gain buy-in for the project.
- Define your technical WLAN requirements based on your business context and requirements.
- If you design your WLAN for capacity, density and coverage will follow.
- Communicate with all involved parties throughout the project’s implementation project (food and beverage operations, casino operations, hotel management, etc.), in order to develop a WLAN design that caters to all of your venue’s stakeholder groups.
Impact and Result
- Gain stakeholder buy-in by making a solid business case for your WLAN build or refresh project by understanding the value it provides to the business.
- Define the business context surrounding the WLAN build or refresh and make sure your technical requirements can satisfy your business requirements.
- Develop a comprehensive request for proposal based on your technical requirements and score your responses using a standard methodology.
- Craft a well-designed network implementation and monitoring process in order to ensure ongoing project success moving forwards.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Define your WLAN state
Conduct a scoping call, understand your business context, and determine your technical requirements.
- Call 2: Build the business case
Conduct a scoping call, review your project financials, and review your business case.
- Call 3: Select your WLAN solution
Conduct a scoping call, review the RFP, and review the RFP responses and contract.
- Call 4: Design the network and deployment plan
Conduct a scoping call, develop the implementation plan, and finalize the plan.
- Call 5: Implement and monitor success
Conduct a scoping call, review the initial project implementation, and monitor the WLAN.