Hotel Wifi Solution

[kimkihyun]

Dear all

I want to provide wifi solution for hotel guest.
The requirement is as below.
- Provide wifi service to all area
- ID/Password will be assign per guest with limitation date.
- Bandwidth control per SSID
- To assign guest's ID at reception of hotel.

I wanna make sure what kind of equipment or software must be equipped for Hotel guest.

Can you advice me the kind of equipment with brief explanation?

Thank you very much in advance.

[Philip D'Ath]

A Cisco 5508 is probably going to be the best matching solution to your needs.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/5508-wireless-controller/index.html

[kimkihyun]

can cisco 5508 support AAA itself to assign ID/PASS of guest without external RADIUS system like a ACS or ISE?

ACS

Thank you everyone for your advice.

[ali aqrabawi]

well , the WLC can do this , there is a local EAP feature where WLC act as AAA client and server , 

but you don't need to do this for the guest , WLC has internal database for users ,

you can configure the guest user/pass on the WLC , and it will start authenticating them against its own database . 

its supported on 2500 and 5508 . 

[Prabath Godevithanage]

wireless Lan controller itself should be able to do what you are just looking for,of course along with Access points.If you are doing some budgeting at the moment,don't forget to include your site survey there.

I also suggest you to have a look at prime infrastructure as well if you are required to have some monitoring but comes down to your requirements

[ali aqrabawi]

2504 support up to 75 APs , if that's enough for your hotel then i recommend this WLC , 

you can use new APs like 1700/2700/3700 that support 802.11ac . 

i recommend 8.0.132 or 8.1.131.0 .

all requirement you have mentioned are available in that WLC . 

[Philip D'Ath]

One nice thing you can do on a 5508 that you can't do on a 2504 is per user bandwidth limits.  That prevents a single guest consuming all the available bandwidth.

[George Stefanick]

I agree the 2504 is an option you might consider. I worry about the overall bandwidth but if this is a best effort situation.  Having done a few hotels myself, as you want to get more and more advanced with the services side of things you would want to also add a guest box. The WLC was never designed to do guest services. A box like a nomadix complements the wireless infrastructure. 

http://www.nomadix.com

[mohanak]

Cisco supports hospitality in both on premise and cloud based refer the links:

https://meraki.cisco.com/customers/hospitality-and-tourism

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/industries/hospitality.html