C2G And TeleAdapt Join Forces To Bring Best-in-Class Guest Connectivity To Hotels Worldwide
TeleAdapt, the industry leader in hospitality connectivity solutions, and C2G, the industry leader in electronic cabling and connectivity solutions, have announced they are creating a strategic partnership to offer hoteliers worldwide the highest quality connectivity solutions designed to enhance the in-room guest experience. This new partnership will bring the leading class connectivity solutions to the hospitality market by combining state of the art technologies like Bluetooth® wireless music streaming, Made for iPod® connectivity, network manageability, and cutting-edge wireless solutions through one highly customer centric global sales organization. TeleAdapt and C2G also announce a joint product roadmap for 2013 to include Wireless HDMI and Mobile "apps" that allow guests to remote control the TV and MediaHub™ experience directly from their own smart phone or tablet.
Gordon Brown, owner and CEO of TeleAdapt shares, "We imagined an entity poised to provide almost every guest connectivity need to hoteliers across the globe. We have maintained that as our mission in the industry for the past 20 years, and I feel this new partnership will take advanced connectivity to a reachable level for each hotel room rated two-star all the way up to five-star worldwide. We will be able to combine our MediaHub's guest-facing features like Bluetooth wireless music streaming and C2G's remote manageability to create a best-in-class connectivity solution for the market. This is very exciting for TeleAdapt and it's a breakthrough for the hospitality market as a whole."
"With over 27 years' experience delivering connectivity solutions to a variety of markets including education, corporate, and healthcare, C2G has built the financial strength and global logistics capabilities to provide TeleAdapt with extended inventory and product availability" said Bill Diederich, president and CEO of Lastar, parent company of C2G. "We are excited to offer TeleAdapt not only access to the TruLink® Media Gateway product line, but also an enhanced logistics platform and strong research and development arm to ensure that, together, we continue to meet the needs of the global hospitality market.
TeleAdapt and C2G's new partnership packs a wealth of value to hoteliers worldwide. With more than 20 years of experience solely dedicated to the hospitality market, TeleAdapt has established itself as the premiere guest connectivity provider to hotels. TeleAdapt has installed millions of products into hotels around the world over the last two decades. TeleAdapt's market reach brings C2G access to their global customer base and industry leading sales and support network. TeleAdapt's market-leading MediaHub product range will now be enhanced by the addition of the innovative Trulink Media Gateway and the partnership will drive forward product development with a common roadmap. All existing C2G hospitality customers will now be serviced by sales operations from TeleAdapt.
"TeleAdapt is acknowledged globally as the market leader in providing connectivity solutions to hoteliers," says Brown. "We now welcome the opportunity of broadening our product range by partnering with C2G. They are a hugely successful company headquartered in the United States with a wide product set and a great deal of product expertise. We are excited by the opportunity to both cooperate together in future connectivity panel development and offer the broader C2G product range to the global hospitality market".
C2G is a manufacturer of more than 6,000 cabling and connectivity solutions, including their flagship hospitality product line the TruLink® Media Gateway. In this partnership C2G will focus on product development for A/V connectivity in the hotel guestroom as well as digital signage solutions and multi-media presentation solutions for meeting rooms and common areas. Other C2G products like award winning RapidRun®, HDMI over Cat5, and wireless A/V technologies will broaden the already industry-leading breadth of TeleAdapt's solutions for hoteliers.
About C2G | C2G (formerly Cables To Go) is a division of Lastar, Inc., a global leader in IT, A/V, and datacom cabling and connectivity solutions since 1984. C2G delivers connectivity solutions renowned for superior quality, value, and innovation and are backed by their uncompromising commitment to customer service. C2G is best known for being the cabling and connectivity supplier of choice for industry leading technology resellers and distributors and has operations across North America, EMEA, and Asia. For more information regarding C2G visit www.C2Gconnect.com.
About TeleAdapt - Keeping Your World Connected
Founded in 1992 by current CEO Gordon Brown, TeleAdapt has over 20 years" experience in the design, manufacture and supply of connectivity products to the hospitality industry. From initial focus towards supporting the business traveller struggling with dial-up modem connections, TeleAdapt has been at the vanguard of the introduction of high-speed Internet in hotels, providing in-room solutions to enhance guest connectivity. Today, TeleAdapt's Internet, power, docking and multi-media products can be found in over 4 million hotel rooms worldwide - from 2 to 7 star, from a small boutique to the largest hotels and the foremost hotel brands in the world.
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With operations in the UK, USA, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE and Korea, and with an extensive reseller network, TeleAdapt's hospitality division is equipped to serve both global hospitality brands and local chains. TeleAdapt holds approved supplier status and Brand Standards for a variety of its products for most multinational hotel groups including Accor, Fairmont, Four Seasons, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Jumeirah, MGM, Sands, Starwood, and Taj. TeleAdapt has strategic partnerships with major TV manufacturers and HSIA/VOD suppliers and was a founding member of HTNG.
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