Match-day spikes — 400 concurrent devices on a network sized for 80
Hotel IT & Guest WiFi · Thurles
Hotel IT and guest WiFi for Thurles properties that survive All-Ireland weekends and equestrian weeks.
Thurles is where the GAA was founded in 1884, and the hospitality estate is shaped by that fact. Semple Stadium hosts All-Ireland semi-finals and major Munster championship games; on those weekends the town's hotels see 200% of their normal occupancy with guests arriving from every county. A guest WiFi network sized for a quiet Tuesday will fall over on a championship Sunday — and that's before the equestrian and racing crowds.
On-site response: same-day on-site·From our Cashel engineering office
The local estate
Hospitality in Thurles, in four shapes.
Each shape has its own IT and cybersecurity profile. We've worked across all four locally.
Mid-size 3- and 4-star hotels in the town centre serving GAA weekends
Boutique inns and historic properties (Hayes' Hotel, where the GAA was founded)
Equestrian-aligned country properties along the Coolmore corridor
Conference-and-events hotels serving Munster corporate and education sectors
Guest WiFi · Thurles
What goes wrong with guest WiFi in Thurles.
Six failure patterns we've actually fixed across Thurles and Co. Tipperary. Each one tends to be invisible to the GM until a wedding party or a corporate guest writes the review.
Wedding and reception WiFi that competes with sports streaming for bandwidth
Sky Sports / RTÉ Player traffic from rooms dominating shared upstream
Captive portals that crash during 17:00 check-in spikes on championship weekends
Reservations-team M365 mailboxes targeted by booking-impersonation phishing
Card-machine VLANs not actually segregated from guest networks
Thurles' peak weekends are Munster championship and All-Ireland qualifier days — March through August, plus equestrian events and the late-autumn corporate season. Match-day occupancy regularly hits 110% across local hotels combined.
Vendor patterns
Who already serves Thurles hotels — and where the gaps sit.
Local hotels typically inherit a network from a freelance technician who left the town two years ago — no documentation, no change log, and one VLAN nobody is sure what it does.
Grants you can use
How Co. Tipperary SMEs typically fund this.
Tipperary SMEs are eligible for the EI Cyber Review Grant and the NCSC Cyber Improvement Grant — and Intellix delivers the audit work the grant pays for. Senior engineers, fixed scope, no application support fee.
EI & NCSC grant route What we'd typically do
First-month engagement in Thurles.
A typical first month: load-test of guest WiFi at expected peak, switch / AP capacity upgrade where needed, VLAN re-segmentation, M365 hardening for the reservations team (DMARC, anti-impersonation), a free initial external cybersecurity brief.
Thurles is 30 minutes from our Cashel office. Same-day on-site for outage triage, next-day for scheduled work — and we plan capacity upgrades around the match calendar.
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