WiFi hotspots at Sun City went live over the weekend of 27 and 28 August. Supplied and managed by Internet Solutions (IS), a leading converged communications services provider, the areas covered include; all Sun City conference rooms, and many of the public areas of the main hotel, Cabanas, Cascades, the Palace of the Lost City, the Super Bowl and the Sun City Vacation Club.
"As a high profile international resort and conference venue, we felt we needed to offer guests, especially business people, a full bouquet of Internet services. Providing them with wireless Internet access is essential to maintain our global standards," says Johann Bester, IT project manager: e-business and technology, Sun International Management Limited. "IS provides us with fully managed services of world-class standards and their customer focus is exactly what we need to ensure always-on access."
"This brings our total number of hotspots to nearly 80 regionally," says Richard Vester, manager, Mobility Solutions at IS. "We already have Zimbali Lodge and Gaborone Sun live on WiFi hotspots, with the Royal Swazi Sun and Fish River Sun going live within the next month. Working with a global company such as Sun International has been great. They know exactly what they want for their guests and we are equally committed to meeting their stringent SLAs."
"The take up of wireless Internet access has been quite phenomenal," says Vester. "We now have a good cross section of the region`s leading hotels, restaurants, and all the airports. Clearly travellers not only demand the same standards they find overseas, but local business users are finding access at the hotspots to be a simple matter of using their existing passwords or simply buying credit card access."
International users gain access through IS` global aggregation agreements, while local users - if already on the IS backbone - use their normal passwords and account information. Provision is also made for instant credit card access and transactions, and unused access time is carried over for use at any IS managed hotspot. IS is the largest hotspot infrastructure provider in South Africa, with a footprint that expands to 22 000 hotspots globally via a network of global roaming partners.
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Internet Solutions (IS) has transformed its business model and become a leading Converged Communications Service Provider in the country.
The business was founded on the principle of developing a robust infrastructure in order for corporates to conduct e- Business. Over the past decade IS has established itself as a leader in this space, attracting over 80% of South Africa`s top businesses as clients.
During its 10 year life span IS has evolved and grown its service offerings. Today, the company is the leading Hosting Service Provider and Security Service Provider in South Africa, as well as having significant market share in the Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Application Service Provider (ASP) space.
Internet Solutions, with an Empowerdex BBB rating, has earned an impressive collection of accolades, including eight First National Bank "Most Admired" awards, two Financial Mail Best Company to Work For awards, a place in the Top Unlisted Company Awards, first place in the ISP category for ComputerWeek Strategist`s Best of Breed IT Awards, 2004, and 8th in the Top ICT Companies, 2005.
The company partners with major players such as Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle BT and AT&T and in 2002 was certified as a Cisco Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), the first and only company outside of the US to be awarded this accolade.
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