Zhaolong’s Integrated Cabling System Helped Sofitel Shanghai North Bund Build Its Smart Hotel

Sofitel represents modern French style, culture, and art of living in the world. Founded in 1964, Sofitel is the premier international French luxury hotel brand, featuring over 120 distinctive hotels in the world's most sought-after destinations.

As one of flagship hotels of the Sofitel brand, Sofitel Shanghai North Bund(formerly known as Shanghai Hongkou Kowloon Hotel), established in 2024, is situated in the core of Shanghai's North Bund. Accor Hotels, of which Sofitel Shanghai North Bund is a part, is a leading international travel and lifestyle group, offering a home-away-from-home experience to visitors at 5,600 hotels, resorts, and residences, as well as approximately 10,000 premium private residences worldwide. Currently, Sofitel Shanghai North Bund claims that it owns 288 luxurious rooms and 27 elegant suites, along with numerous superior ballrooms and multi-functional meeting rooms, providing guests with an unparalleled luxury experience.

For a modern international five-star hotel, the integrated cabling system serves as the essential infrastructure to achieve networking, informatization, and intelligence. Sofitel Shanghai North Bund attaches significant importance to the construction of this system. As a Chinese integrated cabling brand dedicated to providing high-quality and high-performance cabling solutions, Zhaolong Interconnect has been committed to fulfilling the professional cabling requirements of various industries.

In this project, based on the principles of meeting the design requirements and being moderately advanced, in combination with the distinct functional areas and diverse application requirements of Sofitel Shanghai North Bund, Zhaolong Interconnect proposes to primarily employ Zhaolong’s S-series Class E low-smoke halogen-free (IEC 60332-1) cabling system and E-series Class E cabling system solutions, which satisfy the demands of Sofitel hotel projects for high speed, high safety, high reliability, scalability, PoE support, and other requirements.

Zhaolong S-series Class E Cabling System:

• High Safety: Flame retardancy compliant with IEC 60332-1, halogen compliance with IEC 60754-2, and smoke density compliant with IEC 61034-1

• High Speed: Meets 1Gb/s transmission applications, supports 2.5Gb/s and 5Gb/s application expansions

• Support PoE++ Applications: Supports Power over Ethernet Type4 (PoE++) applications

Zhaolong E-Series Class E Integrated Cabling System:

• Easy Upgrade: Meets 1Gb/s transmission applications, supports 2.5/5 GBASE-T network expansion applications, and enables future network upgrades

• Support PoE Applications: Supports PoE/PoE+/POE++ applications

• Anti-Interference: Features excellent TCL, ELTCTL indicators, with excellent anti-interference capability, and ensures stable and reliable signal transmission

Till now, in the hotel field, Zhaolong's rich experience in information technology construction has provided Anji Indigo Hotel in Huzhou City, Banyan Tree Hotel in Hangzhou, Changxing Yuanxiang Sun Valley Hotel in Huzhou, Changchun Shimao Royal Hotel, Shaoxing Shimao Holiday Hotel, Le Royal Meridien Shanghai, (Radison) Deqing Yiman Hotel, Hangzhou (Science and Technology City) Cordis Hotel and many other hotels with their construction of safe and reliable transmission networks.

The project of Sofitel Shanghai North Bund marks a new milestone for Zhaolong in the field of hotel integrated cabling systems and serves as a powerful testament to Zhaolong's comprehensive cabling capabilities. Looking forward, Zhaolong will continue to deepen in the development in the service industry and create a safe, high-speed, and stable network environment for numerous hotels.