Case Study: Quality Hotel Emerarld Gisborne achieves seamless hotel-wide Wi-Fi and increased conference bookings with Fortinet

Fortinet and Fujitsu Deliver a Competitive Edge to Gisborne’s Emerald Hotel

Quality Hotel Emerald in Gisborne, a leading hotel and conference centre, needed to upgrade from limited wired and partial Wi-Fi to universal, reliable wireless coverage to meet guest expectations and protect its position in the competitive conferences and events market. Management sought a fast, secure solution that would support roaming users, upper-level conference rooms with challenging concrete construction, and provide a platform for future growth.

Fujitsu recommended and deployed Fortinet gear — a FortiGate-80C UTM appliance with a centrally located FortiAP-222B plus nine FortiAP-210B and one FortiAP-220B — and handled professional services and testing. The installation was seamless, delivering property-wide Wi‑Fi, simple conference access and billing, robust security, improved event bookings and a stronger competitive edge, with capacity to add BYOD and other services in future.

Quality Hotel Emerarld Gisborne

Stuart Geddes

Quality Hotel Emerarld Gisborne