Today I gave a presentation at HITEC, the world’s largest hospitality technology event. Originally, I only wanted to pitch the use of bandwidth management technology to provide a business-grade hotel Internet access with quality of service guarantees for important applications. But after talking with a number of property managers and companies that provide IT services to them, another big issue came up: copyright infringements by guests for which the hotel as the Internet access provider is liable.
Most of our competitors use specialized hardware for their bandwidth management solutions. We don’t. So people always ask the same question: How can your products perform that well without a high performance accelerator chip? And then we explain why it is a good idea not to use specialized hardware: it is all about reliability, flexibility and performance.
Today I gave a presentation at 