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Need to upgrade your network? Our new gateway trade-in program is the best way to properly replace your current outdated or problematic gateway. Receive up to thousands in rebates toward the purchase of an ANTlabs Inngate 3 gateway. All major Public Access, Hotspot and VBN Gateways are approved for this trade-in program.

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ANTlabs Inngate 3 (IG3) series gateways are exceptional alternatives to Nomadix, HP ProCurve, ValuePoint, Ethostream, Radius Gateway, IP3, SolutionInc and other HSIA Gateways.

Hotels need more bandwidth to keep up with guest demands

Hotels across the country are consistently looking for solutions to improve their guest internet. A single T-1 line or even a DSL, used to be sufficient for guest connection, but as technology has continued to evolve, guest demands are increasing. Many hoteliers have trusted MTS to find the most cost efficient solution to fit their hotel specific internet needs.

A Fairfield Inn in Colorado was confident MTS could find an answer to their guest bandwidth issue and pursued a full network evaluation. After a thorough assessment of their existing network, we recommended adding a link load balancer to solve their current bandwidth concern. With an Elfiq Load Balancer, this Fairfield can increase their network speed and maintain redundancy so guests can enjoy their devices with little or no interruption. To see how MTS can help solve your guest internet issues, call us today at 800.327.7890. We have a team of professionals ready to speak with you.

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Elfiq Networks Releases New App

Hotels across the country are realizing the amazing benefit in adding a link load balancer to their network. To make it even easier, Elfiq Networks released a Mobile Site Manager tool to remotely manage your Elfiq Link Load Balancer from your iPhone or iPad. This application is free of charge to all Elfiq customers and partners to allow network managers instant access to their networks status and statistics.

Click Here to check out Elfiq Link Load Balancers on our site. If you have any questions regarding Elfiq products feel free to contact us through our live chat on our website, email info@mts.cc or call 800-327-7890. We are here to help!

This tool is free and available from the Apple iTunes AppStore. Click here to download the Elfiq Mobile Site Manager.

What is a Link Balancer?
A Link Balancer is a network-based appliance designed to proactively manage bandwidth and multiple ISP or private links. Link balancers are also know as Multi-Homing Devices.

Link Balancers will perform the following functions:

• Link failover: should an ISP link not be available one or more links will handle the traffic until the troubled link returns to normal.

• Outbound traffic balancing: the link balancer will be able to distribute traffic leaving the organization across available links based on organizational preferences

• Inbound traffic balancing: through DNS (Domain Name Service) interception, a link balancer will be able to distribute incoming traffic across all selected links. Common examples include roaming VPN clients, webmail access, transactional applications and email retrieval by remote users.

• Session persistence management: with certain types of traffic, sessions such as SIP (VoIP), HTTPS (secure web site access) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) cannot be balanced.

Popular models include:

LB-550B - 2 ISP links, 70Mbps total, 35Mbps Upload or download

LB-550E - 3 ISP links, 110Mbps total, 55Mbps Upload or download

LB-800E - 6 ISP links, 480Mbps total, 240Mbps Upload or download

LB-1600E - 16 ISP links, 800Mbps total, 400Mbps Upload or download

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Upgrade to HDTV in your hotel.

Today's guests expect the same entertainment experience in their hotel room as they do in their living room. This means hotels have to offer the latest technology and a larger selection of HD channels. As a result many hotel chains are creating new requirements for hotels to provide HD content. If you are looking for a TV provider with flexible, cost effective options and service you can count on, then you can stop searching. MTS has the Guest Room TV Solutions to meet any need. Call or email us today, we would love to answer any questions you may have and get you a free quote.

With MTS you can provide the Ultimate HDTV Experience for your guests. We will completely manage your hotel HDTV solution project. We are an authorized DIRECTV installer, and we provide support nationwide.

The MTS Difference for your Free-To-Guest TV:

AFFORDABLE - No up front capital. Programming available to fit any budget.

CUSTOM - Choose you channels. No need to pay for channels your guest's don't watch.

CUTTING EDGE - Get the most HD channels available and the latest technology.

SUPPORT - Nationwide service and support. We are here for you.

Visit our site or Contact Us (800-327-7890) for more information

• The Most HD Channels Available
• The Latest Cutting Edge Technology
• Free-To-Guest HDTV
• The Best Premium Channels
• Customize Your Channels

Contact MTS for more info on upgrading your Hotel Guest Rooms to HDTV.


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Tips for Better Bandwidth

• Require Authentication. Properties with open access often experience neighboring users consuming their bandwidth. Requiring a username and password, access code, or PMS authentication will cut down the amount of users stealing bandwidth from your guests.
• Network Redundancy. This idea is growing in popularity as technology improves and costs come down. A network running on a single circuit it at the mercy of that provider. When an outage occurs, your site is down until the issue is resolved. With link load balancers, multiple circuits can be utilized at once. If there is an outage on one circuit, your users won't be affected. The key is having circuits with different providers.
• Updated Infrastructure. It is imperative to have a gateway that can handle the proper amount of usage for your property. Other key pieces to consider are switches and access points. Make the move to dual band 802.11n access points for higher throughput, improved reliability, and increased range. If you go with 802.11n access points you should also install gigabit switches.
• Bandwidth Rate Limiting. Put a bandwidth cap on all users. Limiting the amount of bandwidth for a single user will prevent one guest from consuming all of the bandwidth.
• Bandwidth Up-Sell. Offer a free plan for users which provides them basic bandwidth, an example would be 512K down and 256K up. Also provide users to purchase bandwidth upgrades to allow access to double and triple their bandwidth. Your site must have network redundancy and enough available bandwidth to make this work.
• Load Balancing. Provide an appliance at the front of the network that actively manages traffic to keep usage balanced over multiple circuits. Be sure the product offers active link load balancing. Be careful when selecting a link load balancer, as some products only allow a secondary circuit to be utilized when the primary circuit fails. If you are paying for multiple circuits, be sure you have the capability of using each of them to the highest extent.
• Bring the Home Experience to your site. Data obtained between 7/10/11-8/8/11 from netindex.com, states the average download speed in the United States is 11.35Mbps. Being able to offer that bandwidth to each user would be expensive, but far too many hotels have a single T1 (1.5Mbps) to share between all of their guests. While T1 circuits are very reliable they just don't offer enough bandwidth for the price. In most locations you can get a 20+ Mbps cable and a 10+ Mbps DSL circuit for less than half the price of a 1.5Mbps T1. Other solid alternatives to a T1 include Fiber and Metro Ethernet. If you need a T1 for your phone system needs, get a dynamic voice and data T1. This will give you your voice channels when they are needed and more bandwidth when they are not. Combining this with a link load balancer and cable circuit and you have just given yourself much more bandwidth, decreased your monthly bills, provided redundancy and INCREASED YOUR GUEST SCORES!!

Have any questions or want to see how MTS can help you get better bandwidth?

Contact Us: info@mts.cc
or Call 800-327-7890

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IP3 Networks Gateway Replacement / Trade-In

MTS has launched a new gateway trade-in program.

This program is the best way to properly replace your current outdated or problematic IP3 gateway. We are offering rebates up to $3,000 on a trade-in towards the purchase of an ANTlabs InnGate 3 Gateway.

Some of the current problems with IP3 NetAccess Gateways include: no support, expired certificates & memory leaks. These issues are causing poor network performance, low internet scores and rising guest complaints. No need to put up with these problems any longer. Contact MTS now to get your old IP3 replaced and improve the quality of your internet access.

The IP3 Networks NetAccess Gateway as well as all other major Gateways are approved for this trade-in program. This is a limited time offer so please contact MTS today.

Email: info@mts.cc
Toll Free: 800-327-7890


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