What are the hotel network equipment?

Abstract: With the rapid development of current mobile networks, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices have become widely used. As a temporary residence for business travelers and tourists, hotels have become an integral part of hotel services. In the process of building a wireless network, the hotel adopted a wireless network architecture based on fat AP due to cost considerations, but the operation and maintenance efficiency was low and the wireless signal was poor. Therefore, this time our hotel LAN construction plan is designed to use wireless controller AC and FITAP. Let’s take a look below! 1. What are the hotel network equipment?

To establish a stable wireless network that meets actual needs, it is required to select appropriate networking equipment. A complete solution for wireless networks includes routers, switches, PoE devices, APs, AC controllers and other equipment. Due to different scales and needs, the equipment required in different hotel network solutions may also be different. A variety of network equipment is available on the market. to meet differentiated needs.

Wireless coverage products can be selected flexibly. Taking the hotel environment as an example, we can use different products for hotels of different specifications, such as:

Small and medium-sized hotels: lobby and restaurant can be selected Ordinary single-band ceiling-mounted wireless APs can provide wireless coverage in most areas and meet basic uses;

High-end large hotels: lobbies and restaurants can choose dual-band ceiling-mounted wireless APs.

2. Hotel LAN establishment plan

Requirements for establishment of hotel LAN:

1. The hotel layout is relatively regular, which requires full wireless coverage of each guest room and no blind spots;

2. The hotel has relatively complete cable connections, and the AP adopts an 86-type panel design, making full use of the existing wiring cassettes;

3. Considering the hotel’s later development needs, the network equipment should have good scalability , support the following diversified marketing requirements such as WEB authentication, SMS authentication, WeChat authentication;

4. It is necessary to automatically switch access points during the movement of wireless terminals, and the network remains offline, that is, wireless roaming;

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5. The hotel has high-end decoration, and the AP appearance should be beautiful and elegant, and it needs to support PoE power supply to meet fire protection and wiring requirements;

6. AP supports unified management and configuration, and real-time monitoring of the work of each AP status, easy operation and maintenance;

Features of the hotel LAN solution:

Deployed using wireless controller AC and FITAP. It has the following characteristics:

High availability: The AP uses professional antennas and the transmit power is linearly adjustable. The AP transmit power can be reasonably adjusted according to the actual environment to meet the coverage needs of different areas.

Flexible roaming: FITAP wireless deployment architecture, different APs can be set to transmit the same SSID. When wireless terminals move between different APs under the same VLAN, they can quickly switch between different APs to achieve cross-AP Fast roaming on the second floor.

Dual-band coverage: ceiling-mounted AP, supports 11AC dual-band concurrency, the highest wireless rate can reach 1200Mbps, faster speed, and more clients can be accessed.

High scalability: supports multiple user access authentication methods such as MAC authentication and Portal authentication, and can be combined with external portal servers and authentication servers to implement SMS authentication, WeChat authentication and other authentication methods.

Easy to deploy: The AP adopts 86-type panel design, which is beautiful and elegant. It supports 802.3af standard PoE network cable for power supply. It can directly replace the original network panel without rewiring, does not destroy the original decoration of the room, and is simple to construct.

Easy management: FTTAP is uniformly managed by the wireless controller AC, which automatically discovers and manages APs in a unified manner. The AP operating status can be viewed in real time to facilitate network management and maintenance.

Hotel LAN configuration:

The hotel wireless network adopts the deployment architecture of wireless controller AC and thin AP, with Huawei wired and wireless integrated authentication server, unified network management system, and access Incoming switches and core switches for high-speed data exchange form a centralized and unified hotel wireless network.

The wireless controller AC is connected to the core switch and is responsible for radio frequency management of the wireless network, AP configuration delivery and other functions;

The network management system completes the automatic configuration of APs in the entire network Delivery, radio frequency management, channel allocation, access control and other management;

The authentication server completes the authentication, authentication, and accounting functions of wireless access users;

AP in the guest room In the area, it is recommended to use room-based deployment to reduce hotel investment costs; in public areas, including lobbies, restaurants and other areas, it is recommended to use distributed deployment, which is beautiful and has good coverage.

Installation and deployment of hotel LAN:

The lobby is relatively empty with few obstacles. The ceiling-mounted AP covers a diameter of 20-30 meters in an open environment. Small and medium-sized hotel lobbies can Only 2-3 APs can be arranged in the specific structure, and more can be added as appropriate in large hotel lobbies.

The hotel restaurant is relatively empty with few obstructions. It can be deployed as appropriate according to the size of the restaurant and the coverage of ceiling-mounted APs, and the points are evenly distributed.

The guest room access environment is dense and has many wall barriers, which causes relatively large attenuation of wireless signals. It is recommended to deploy one panel AP in each room.