We're following the same approach as UA with the carrier funded DAS model. When asked about wifi offload, the largest carrier involved had a wait and see attitude. They inferred that the Stadium wifi concept wasn’t panning out as well as they hoped. They seem to be banking on DAS with LTE/4G to handle the future load.
ste From: "Watters, John" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:50:45 -0500 To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] High-Density Stadium Wireless Our folks abandoned the idea pretty quickly (thank goodness). We seat 101,600+. But, they are installing a DAS that AT&T and Verizon are jointly paying for (and each of which will also pay us $$ each year) to help cell coverage as well as 3Gstuff. Please let me know if you find someone with a large stadium that has been able to provide802.11g/n coverage in a satisfactory manner. I expect our folks will ask again at some time. -jcw [cid:[email protected]] ------------------------------------- John Watters UA: OIT 205-348-3992 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 1:42 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] High-Density Stadium Wireless I know there are plenty of professional sports examples, but I’m curious about peer schools who have large stadiums (we seat 33K-50K in our ours) who havedone their own high-quality, high-density WLAN build outs, and what solution(s) you used. I’d like to talk in detail off list, and possibly arrange for a site visit if the venue is close enough in scope to our own to be of value. (This message is absolutely NOT an invitation for AT&T or any other vendor tocall, email, show up on my door, or to try to be my Facebook or Linked-In fake friend. No offense. ) Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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