Wayport Acquires ResortWiFi, LLC; Expands Hospitality Portfolio.AUSTIN, Texas -- Wayport, Inc., an international leader in the design and integration of applications and software over Wi-Fi carrier grade networks, announced today its acquisition of ResortWiFi, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . ResortWiFi is a premier Wi-Fi Internet services provider focusing predominantly on the timeshare A form of shared property ownership, commonly in vacation or recreation condominium property, in which rights vest in several owners to use property for a specified period each year. (also called interval ownership) industry. ResortWiFi currently serves such upscale timeshare and hotel companies as Fairfield Resorts Fairfield Resorts is the largest timeshare company and has the largest number of owners in the world. It a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide, based in Orlando, Florida. The company's name comes from its first resort, Fairfield Bay Resort in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. In Oct. International (a Wyndham Worldwide Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) is the holding company for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and other lodging brands. It was spun off from Cendant Corporation in July 2006. Hotel franchises
Wayport has served the hospitality market since 1997 and today provides services to prestigious hotel brands in 32 countries worldwide. Wayport expects to move quickly to integrate many of the more than 40 service contracts acquired in the transaction into Wayport's existing network, which will complement and broaden Wayport's existing relationships with the interval ownership industry. "Acquiring ResortWiFi represents another great milestone in executing our growth strategy for hospitality," said Dave Vucina, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Wayport. "As we expand and diversify our position and business capabilities in the hospitality vertical market, we also continue to offer additional locations to our roaming partners and to our broad customer base that depends on consistent, reliable services from Wayport." Wayport is pleased to announce that the principals of ResortWiFi, Dick Drechsler and Jim Phalan, will become affiliated with Wayport. Drechsler, an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience providing innovative products and services to the interval sales industry, will be a consultant to Wayport. Phalan, the Chief Technology Officer of ResortWiFi, will join Wayport's team as national account sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → and will provide his industry experience to Wayport's expansion efforts into the resort and timeshare market. "We are really pleased to be able to offer Wayport's services and expertise with products and applications to the ResortWiFi customer base," said Phalan. "We see tremendous opportunity in joining forces to bring new services and support capabilities to the resort community." Wayport provides hotels and resorts with fast, reliable access to the Internet, public PCs and printing, enhanced security, unique applications like voice over Wi-Fi Transmitting IP-based telephone calls (VoIP) over a Wi-Fi network. Voice over Wi-Fi (Vo-Fi) provides enhancements to the 802.11 standards for handling the real time environment of voice calls. With a single mode Vo-Fi phone, users can make calls only within a Wi-Fi hotspot. and 24/7/365 support for hotel guests and staff. About Wayport, Inc. Building on its established network infrastructure encompassing more than 13,000 locations in 32 countries, Wayport designs, develops and enables software and applications over carrier grade networks for innovative organizations in a number of vertical markets encompassing retail, healthcare, hospitality, managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality and others. Wayport helps organizations attract and retain loyal customers, create new business capabilities and improve operational efficiencies at premier venues including major hotels, airports, McDonald's and Hertz hertz (hûrts) [for Heinrich R. Hertz], abbr. Hz, unit of frequency, equal to 1 cycle per second. The term is combined with metric prefixes to denote multiple units such as the kilohertz (1,000 Hz), megahertz (1,000,000 Hz), and gigahertz locations, and other retail brands worldwide. To learn more about Wayport, please visit www.wayport.net or to see locations worldwide, visit www.wayport.net/locations. |
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