EmpressWiFi
Hospitality Wi-Fi built from both sides of the front desk

Your guests shouldn't have to learn how hotel Wi-Fi works.

At home, guests connect their phones, laptops, tablets, streaming devices and work applications without thinking about the network behind them.

We believe they should expect the same experience at your hotel.

The Residential Experience — At the Hotel

EmpressWiFi is built around a simple idea: hotel Internet should feel familiar. Guests should be able to connect their everyday devices and use the Internet the way they already know how to use it at home.

Connect once

Authentication should be simple, understandable and quick. Guests should not need an IT lesson just to get online.

Use familiar devices

Phones, tablets, laptops, streaming devices and work equipment should behave the way guests expect.

Use familiar applications

Streaming, video calls, VPNs, cloud applications and ordinary web services should work without unnecessary interference.

Forget the network exists

The best hotel Wi-Fi experience is one the guest barely notices. It connects, it works and it stays out of the way.

Join hotel Wi-Fi ↓ Authenticate ↓ Internet works ↓ Streaming works ↓ VPN works ↓ Video calls work ↓ Work gets done ↓ Guest never calls the front desk

The network should adapt to the guest.

The guest should not have to adapt to the network. EmpressWiFi is designed to deliver the freedom and simplicity of a residential Internet experience while maintaining the control and reliability required in a commercial hotel environment.

Residential Simplicity. Commercial Control.

Behind the simple guest experience is a professionally managed hospitality network designed to give hotel operators visibility, control and predictable performance.

Fair bandwidth management

Every hotel has finite Internet capacity. EmpressWiFi protects that capacity by managing overall consumption fairly rather than unnecessarily deciding which legitimate applications guests may use.

Hotel-focused visibility

Understand coverage problems, roaming behavior, overloaded access points, Internet utilization, device counts and service interruptions.

Better troubleshooting

Identify whether a problem follows a particular device, guest area or access point so issues can be resolved faster and more accurately.

Fewer front-desk calls

When the network behaves the way guests expect, the front desk spends less time explaining Wi-Fi and more time taking care of guests.

Manage Bandwidth. Don't Manage the Guest.

Bandwidth management is necessary. Arbitrary interference is not.

What we believe in

  • Fair per-device and per-session bandwidth limits
  • Protecting available Internet capacity
  • Monitoring total consumption
  • Preventing individual devices from overwhelming the network
  • Allowing legitimate applications to operate normally
  • Using network identity to diagnose problems

What we try to avoid

  • Arbitrary blocking of unfamiliar protocols
  • Breaking legitimate VPN connections without good reason
  • Application-specific throttling simply because traffic is unusual
  • Opaque policies that create mysterious failures
  • Making hotel staff explain network restrictions they did not create

Give every guest a fair share.

Then let the Internet be the Internet.

Designed from both sides of the front desk

We operate hotels, too.

EmpressWiFi comes from decades of real hospitality operating experience. That means we understand technology from the owner's office, the front desk, the maintenance room and the guest room.

We stay in hotels. We connect the same kinds of devices our guests connect. We experience the same captive portals, coverage problems and network restrictions they experience.

That changes the questions we ask.

Is the network working?

And more importantly:

Is the network working the way a guest expects it to?

"Sometimes the best way to understand the guest experience is to stay in the room, connect your own devices and use the network exactly the way the guest does."

The best hotel Wi-Fi experience isn't impressive.

It's unremarkable.

The guest connects.

Their devices work.

Their applications work.

Their video plays and their calls connect.

Their work gets done.

They don't have to troubleshoot the hotel's network.

The front desk never hears about it.

That's success.

The Internet experience your guests expect at home.

The control, reliability and visibility your hotel needs.

To learn more about EmpressWiFi, call Tervation Solutions at 610-926-7700.
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