CALGARY, AB and PANAMA CITY, Republic of Panama, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. ('Guest-Tek') (TSX:GTK) and Datatel, S.A (A Grupo Comtel company) have announced deployment of Guest-Tek's OneView Media platform into The Bristol Panama, a sophisticated luxury hotel set in the heart of the bustling financial center of Panama City, Republic of Panama.
Guest-Tek's and Datatel S.A.'s relationship allows Latin American hoteliers like the Bristol Panama hotel the ability to provide Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media platform with the regional support. As a global provider of media and entertainment platforms Guest-Tek has leveraged Datatel experience and strength in serving the Latin America Hospitality marketplace.
"Guest-Tek's deployment of the OneView(TM) Media system into The Bristol Panama is a step in the continued growth of our company in Latin America. Working with an established partner, Datatel, S.A. that utilizes the highest industry standards creates a powerful team for the hospitality in-room entertainment industry in Central America," said Arnon Levy, CEO of Guest-Tek.
"We researched many companies before making the final decision on a company to provide interactive entertainment," said Ing. Marco Gateno Ch., President of Datatel, S.A. "Our final decision was based on Guest-Tek's global dominance with their OneView(TM) Internet and their past abilities to support this system throughout the world. We chose Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media solution based on the company's implementation standards, strength as a global provider, speed of delivery, as well as their strong relationships with Hollywood's largest entertainment studios."
Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media system provides for the delivery of Digital content securely over Internet Protocol (IP) using industry standards for conditional access and content encryption featuring Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit encryption technology, as well as aiding content protection from piracy with session based forensic watermarking. The additional value of this technology provides flexibility through a software-based approach to content protection supporting easy renewability, revocability, and even complete replacement - instead of costly and inflexible hardware based solutions that are dependent upon proprietary embedded hardware in the television.
ABOUT GUEST-TEK
Guest-Tek (Toronto Stock Exchange: GTK) is the world's largest provider of IP based technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Guest-Tek's OneView platform provides hotels with converged data, video and telephony services. Guest-Tek is a preferred vendor to major hotel brands, providing services including network design, procurement, implementation, and post sales customer support to over 3,066 properties and over 507,000 rooms. The company's head offices are in Calgary, Alberta, and it has major support facilities in Irvine, California, and Warsaw, Poland as well as Sales offices located throughout North America and Europe. For more information about Guest-Tek, go to http://www.guest-tek.com/
ABOUT DATATEL, S.A:
Datatel, S.A. is a member of Grupo Comtel which has served the telecommunications industry in Republic of Panama for over 35 years. Founded in 1998 by Ing. Marco Gateno, Datatel marks the entry of the group into the data communications part of the telecommunications industry. Datatel brings forward its vast experience in communication of voice and data to the Hospitality market. For more information about Grupo Comtel, go to http://www.comtel.com.pa/
