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April 2016
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One Mountain At A Time.
New! Download the compiled Life Series blog in PDF booklet format.
Welcome again to Life Series, the life story of Cetis Founder & CEO, Dr. Bing N. Sun, entitled One Mountain At A Time.
From an early childhood touched by poverty, backbreaking agricultural labor, and gnawing physical hunger, to outstanding academic achievement, and business success, this is a story that needs to be told...and read.
Now download the compiled version of One Mountain At A Time in PDF booklet format. Click here now to view or download the booklet.
We also invite you to click here to submit your own comments directly to Dr. Sun and to the author. Thanks for reading. We look forward to hearing from you.
From an early childhood touched by poverty, backbreaking agricultural labor, and gnawing physical hunger, to outstanding academic achievement, and business success, this is a story that needs to be told...and read.
Now download the compiled version of One Mountain At A Time in PDF booklet format. Click here now to view or download the booklet.
We also invite you to click here to submit your own comments directly to Dr. Sun and to the author. Thanks for reading. We look forward to hearing from you.
Meet the Cetis team.
Greg Danner, Senior Engineer. A Cetis team member since August 2000.
Greg Danner, Cetis Senior Engineer
Greg Danner grew up with technology, and eventually made a career of it. Prior to joining Cetis 15 years ago, Greg operated a successful upscale stereo speaker manufacturing business, and collaborated with a variety of local and international musical groups.
Q: Greg, what well-known music groups did you work during your years manufacturing speakers?
A: Too many to remember them all, but there is one that really stands out. In the mid 1970’s there were a number of nationally known bands that played in Champaign Urbana, Illinois. Both rock and roll and jazz. I recall one day I went home early from work because I had a bad cold/flu bug. I worked at a local music store then. That store sold guitars and pianos and also operated and rented out several large traveling sound systems that worked all over the Midwest. I was soundly asleep when somebody began knocking loudly on my apartment door. They didn’t stop knocking. Gradually I woke up and dragged myself over to the door. When I opened it I saw a small thin African-American man with a huge afro haircut. He looked at me and asked "Are you Greg Danner?" I managed to groan out a weak "yes". Then he shook my hand and said "That’s great! I’m Herbie Hancock. I just got back into the USA after playing in Europe for 3 months. I’m scheduled to play tonight in Champaign but my sound system got damaged on the plane and the people at the music store told me you are the one person in Champaign who might be able to fix it. Would you be able to come with me to the venue and take a look at it please?" My sickness evaporated in about 3 seconds. We stopped at the music store, grabbed my tools, and off we went. Herbie’s sound system was almost new. He purchased it in Italy during his tour. There was one capacitor broken off on one circuit board. Wow! I was lucky! Most problems aren’t that easy to find. After a few minutes with my soldering iron everything was working again. I could see the relief on everyone’s face. There was about an hour to go before the performance was scheduled to begin. And that was a great concert! I sat on the edge of the stage, watching Herbie play his Fender-Rhodes electric piano and his ARP 2600 synthesizer. A lot of the tunes were from the Headhunters album.
Q: Which is your favorite Cetis phone and why?
A: The 9600MWD and its relatives. Getting a cordless phone to work right in a hotel environment was a monumental engineering challenge. Between 2000 and 2006 I recall testing and evaluating more than 20 different samples of cordless phones. I rejected all of them. They simply weren’t ready for the hotel guest room. But hotels were already buying cordless phones from our competitors, even though those phones barely worked. So in 2007, TeleMatrix/Scitec (newly merged) set out to create a new cordless phone that would truly be good enough to put 500 of them into a hotel and have them all keep working. A year’s worth of late nights in the engineering lab, for both myself and our engineers, finally paid off. The 9600MWD came out in 2008 and has been a best seller ever since.
Q: Greg, what well-known music groups did you work during your years manufacturing speakers?
A: Too many to remember them all, but there is one that really stands out. In the mid 1970’s there were a number of nationally known bands that played in Champaign Urbana, Illinois. Both rock and roll and jazz. I recall one day I went home early from work because I had a bad cold/flu bug. I worked at a local music store then. That store sold guitars and pianos and also operated and rented out several large traveling sound systems that worked all over the Midwest. I was soundly asleep when somebody began knocking loudly on my apartment door. They didn’t stop knocking. Gradually I woke up and dragged myself over to the door. When I opened it I saw a small thin African-American man with a huge afro haircut. He looked at me and asked "Are you Greg Danner?" I managed to groan out a weak "yes". Then he shook my hand and said "That’s great! I’m Herbie Hancock. I just got back into the USA after playing in Europe for 3 months. I’m scheduled to play tonight in Champaign but my sound system got damaged on the plane and the people at the music store told me you are the one person in Champaign who might be able to fix it. Would you be able to come with me to the venue and take a look at it please?" My sickness evaporated in about 3 seconds. We stopped at the music store, grabbed my tools, and off we went. Herbie’s sound system was almost new. He purchased it in Italy during his tour. There was one capacitor broken off on one circuit board. Wow! I was lucky! Most problems aren’t that easy to find. After a few minutes with my soldering iron everything was working again. I could see the relief on everyone’s face. There was about an hour to go before the performance was scheduled to begin. And that was a great concert! I sat on the edge of the stage, watching Herbie play his Fender-Rhodes electric piano and his ARP 2600 synthesizer. A lot of the tunes were from the Headhunters album.
Q: Which is your favorite Cetis phone and why?
A: The 9600MWD and its relatives. Getting a cordless phone to work right in a hotel environment was a monumental engineering challenge. Between 2000 and 2006 I recall testing and evaluating more than 20 different samples of cordless phones. I rejected all of them. They simply weren’t ready for the hotel guest room. But hotels were already buying cordless phones from our competitors, even though those phones barely worked. So in 2007, TeleMatrix/Scitec (newly merged) set out to create a new cordless phone that would truly be good enough to put 500 of them into a hotel and have them all keep working. A year’s worth of late nights in the engineering lab, for both myself and our engineers, finally paid off. The 9600MWD came out in 2008 and has been a best seller ever since.
Five year old Greg Danner evaluating a 2500 set.
Q: What do you do when not engineering or repairing phones?
A: I love my family and I love music. I have my wife of 32 years, 3 adult children, 1 grandchild, and soon a 2nd grandchild. I’m blessed that all of the children live nearby. When it comes to music I mainly enjoy listening to it, both live and recorded. And I’ve made some attempts to perform too. My wife and I both belong to our church choir.
Q: What have you liked most about working at Cetis for 15+ years?
A: More than anything I enjoy the people at Cetis. This is a company that people build careers with. Several of my colleagues were already at Scitec when I was hired in 2000. The Founder and CEO, Dr. Sun, is a terrific leader. That’s why so many people at Cetis have continued to work here for so many years. We work hard together. We work efficiently together. We get a lot accomplished. And we enjoy our work. I feel honored to have played a role in this company. And I actually enjoy my work more today than I did in the past. Part of this is due to the incredible advances in electronic technology and knowledge that have taken place during my 40+ year engineering career. Today I have tools and equipment that I couldn’t have dreamed of, let alone afford to buy, as recently as 5 or 10 years back. This is truly a great time to be doing electronic design work.
A: I love my family and I love music. I have my wife of 32 years, 3 adult children, 1 grandchild, and soon a 2nd grandchild. I’m blessed that all of the children live nearby. When it comes to music I mainly enjoy listening to it, both live and recorded. And I’ve made some attempts to perform too. My wife and I both belong to our church choir.
Q: What have you liked most about working at Cetis for 15+ years?
A: More than anything I enjoy the people at Cetis. This is a company that people build careers with. Several of my colleagues were already at Scitec when I was hired in 2000. The Founder and CEO, Dr. Sun, is a terrific leader. That’s why so many people at Cetis have continued to work here for so many years. We work hard together. We work efficiently together. We get a lot accomplished. And we enjoy our work. I feel honored to have played a role in this company. And I actually enjoy my work more today than I did in the past. Part of this is due to the incredible advances in electronic technology and knowledge that have taken place during my 40+ year engineering career. Today I have tools and equipment that I couldn’t have dreamed of, let alone afford to buy, as recently as 5 or 10 years back. This is truly a great time to be doing electronic design work.
AAHOA annual convention and trade show. Great traffic, meetings, and food!
The Cetis team enjoyed great booth traffic, meetings, and food at the recent 2016 AAHOA Annual Convention & Trade Show held March 29-April 1 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville. More than 4,000 attendees made this year's show the largest convention and trade show in the hospitality industry.
From the trade show floor, Cetis presented the company's full suite of guest USB smart mobile device charging solutions, including Teledex M Series and E Series hotel phones with built-in USB charging ports, and USB Series charging stations for existing room phones. As always, the entire AAHOA-sponsored event featured authentic Indian cuisine, world-class entertainment, Bollywood performances, and much more.
Missed the show? Click here to request a hotel phone quotation for an upcoming new construction or renovation project, or here to submit a general inquiry.
From the trade show floor, Cetis presented the company's full suite of guest USB smart mobile device charging solutions, including Teledex M Series and E Series hotel phones with built-in USB charging ports, and USB Series charging stations for existing room phones. As always, the entire AAHOA-sponsored event featured authentic Indian cuisine, world-class entertainment, Bollywood performances, and much more.
Missed the show? Click here to request a hotel phone quotation for an upcoming new construction or renovation project, or here to submit a general inquiry.
Millennials are bringing smart devices into the room. Are you ready?
Recent hospitality industry research reports that guests are bringing multiple mobile devices into the guest room. By definition, mobile devices need to be charged, and re-charged, which is why Cetis offers multiple USB plug-in port solutions designed to meet the emerging requirements of both your business and leisure guests.
Meeting the ever-changing guest preference for control within the guestroom can be a challenge for hoteliers, but there is consensus that the best hotels leverage technology to help make the hotel stay more enjoyable. In fact, according to Hotel-Online (see story below), Millennials are the guest segment that already makes up 40% of leisure travelers who book travel online. They not only use smartphones and tablets when booking and researching travel, but bring them into the room as well. From research to booking and email confirmations to mobile ticketing, and in-room entertainment and communications – it’s all digital.
Providing the convenience of USB charging for your guests is good business. Keep guests coming back and drive return reservation revenues with our wide range of hotel guest room USB charging solutions. Click here for Cetis USB charging solutions details, or here to explore hotel phone models, and request a quotation.
Meeting the ever-changing guest preference for control within the guestroom can be a challenge for hoteliers, but there is consensus that the best hotels leverage technology to help make the hotel stay more enjoyable. In fact, according to Hotel-Online (see story below), Millennials are the guest segment that already makes up 40% of leisure travelers who book travel online. They not only use smartphones and tablets when booking and researching travel, but bring them into the room as well. From research to booking and email confirmations to mobile ticketing, and in-room entertainment and communications – it’s all digital.
Providing the convenience of USB charging for your guests is good business. Keep guests coming back and drive return reservation revenues with our wide range of hotel guest room USB charging solutions. Click here for Cetis USB charging solutions details, or here to explore hotel phone models, and request a quotation.
Hotel-Online News
10 things you need to know about Millennial travelers.
For the travel industry to be successful long term, it needs to understand the Millennial first.
Millennials already make up 40% of leisure travelers who book travel online. They’ve grown up in the digital age so tech is part of their DNA. They don’t think twice about booking a flight online, posting online for a last minute hotel or restaurant recommendation, or even spending the night in a stranger’s home in a city a thousand miles away from home.
In an almost desperate attempt to win them over, the travel industry is throwing everything they’ve got at them – building niche brands, introducing mobile-driven amenities and just trying to be hip enough to matter.
What the industry needs to understand is that this is not a demographic phenomenon of the peer-influenced, over-sharing Millennial. It’s a change in our culture that won’t just follow this generation. It will establish the foundation for the next generation of tech-enabled travel experience that drives more options, more freedom of choice and ultimately more revenue opportunity for the industry. For the travel industry to be successful long term, it needs to understand the Millennial first. Identifying and wooing them is easy, if you appreciate that Millennials have specific travel tendencies and motivations, such as:
In an almost desperate attempt to win them over, the travel industry is throwing everything they’ve got at them – building niche brands, introducing mobile-driven amenities and just trying to be hip enough to matter.
What the industry needs to understand is that this is not a demographic phenomenon of the peer-influenced, over-sharing Millennial. It’s a change in our culture that won’t just follow this generation. It will establish the foundation for the next generation of tech-enabled travel experience that drives more options, more freedom of choice and ultimately more revenue opportunity for the industry. For the travel industry to be successful long term, it needs to understand the Millennial first. Identifying and wooing them is easy, if you appreciate that Millennials have specific travel tendencies and motivations, such as:
- They trust their friends’ recommendations over a travel agent. Millennials are also strongly influenced by online sources such as review sites, blogs and social media. 76% say that friends’ recommendations are top influencers for travel and 80% percent feel travel reviews have a strong influence on their decisions, and 18% consider travel agent advice.
- They want to fully immerse themselves into new cultures, and feast on local cuisine. Millennials desire authentic, meaningful experiences—preferably ones they can post to social media. They’re the social media “showboating” generation, making sure friends see their adventures as they happen. This preference has helped power the sharing economy, making more than a cottage industry of community sharing travel innovations like Airbnb (accommodations), Uber (transport) and Feastly (food).
- They use mobile devices and digital platforms for their entire digital journey. Millennials use Smartphones when booking and researching travel, and tablets as a travel devise are sure to rise. 49% of Millennials use smartphones when planning trips and 35% book journeys on them. From research to booking and email confirmations to mobile ticketing – it’s all digital. The Internet of Things continues to transform travel incorporating Internet-enabled functions beyond wi-fi to cardless check-in, tablet in-room services, wearables, and more.
Cetis is fluent.
Looking for a hotel phone supplier that speaks your language?
We currently provide sales and support services in English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Russian, and Portuguese. But with the addition of our Cetis-certified channel partner sales and service teams, we're able to provide additional language-centric sales and support services. We invite you to reach out to us via phone, email, or chat and we'll do our best to accommodate your language preferences, or put you in touch with a regional Cetis channel partner team that can assist you. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Did you know that you can receive online assistance with product, pricing, support of Cetis hotel phones? The Cetis Account Manager team is here to help you with any hotel phone-related questions that you may have – before, during, or after your purchase. You may find the LiveChat feature on the lower right side of our Cetis, Teledex, TeleMatrix, and Scitec websites. We look forward to chatting with you!
