The QuickSilver network offers high-speed connectivity and Internet access for hotel rooms via the QuickSilver portal.  The portal provides guests with information on the hotel and its services; local restaurants, shopping and areas of interest; plus, local and national news and weather, stock updates, access to travel planners and much more. 

�The installation will offer guests connection speeds up to 200 times faster than solutions in operation today,� said NetSoft Corp., CEO, Himesh Patel. �Our next step is to install our �thin clients� (personal computers) to the rooms so guests are able to leave their laptops behind.  Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for the traveler as well as the hotelier,� added Patel.

Prior to the installation of QuickSilver, Grand Cypress was faced with massive re-wiring costs due to distance between buildings.  With the NetSoft solution, the costs for installation were reduced by ninety-five percent.

�If QuickSilver wasn�t an option, the hotel would have been forced to completely re-wire the campus with fiber optic cable and category five wiring, which would increase the cost of installation exponentially,� commented Brad Shuput, director of MIS, Villas of Grand Cypress. �With NetSoft, the costs are reduced, telephone lines are freed up and the solution is provided on a revenue sharing basis,� added Shuput.

The installation was a joint effort between NetSoft, Nomadix, Alcatel and Paradyne, NetSoft�s systems integration and Portal delivery, Nomadix�s network management gateway, Alcatel�s switching equipment and Paradyne�s DSL equipment.  The partnership between NetSoft and Paradyne allows for high speed Internet access to be distributed on their current wiring for distances up to 40,000 feet.  The property�s investment in the QuickSilver solution was approximately $5,000.

The Villas of Grand Cypress is the third resort/hotel to be completed in the Orlando area.  In February, NetSoft�s QuickSilver portal was deployed at the Caribe Royal Resort Suites & Villas in Orlando, Fla.  Phase one of the project included 406 suites.  Phase two of the Caribe Royal contract will include deployment of the QuickSilver portal in all 1,328 units.

NetSoft is a privately held company that engineers custom, integrated computer and telecommunications products and services that are designed to implement e-business and e-commerce for the hospitality industry.  NetSoft offers the hotel and convention industries a �single source� to fulfill any and all Internet, web development, property management, networking and software needs.