Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] High-Density Stadium Wireless

[Scott Smith]

Over last summer I installed wireless in our Residence halls, long overdue obviously.  Anyways, part of the project was to bring in an expert in wireless for two weeks.  I personally have been designing wireless networks since 1997 and didn't necessarily think we needed the "extra gun" but for a good sanity check I thought it would be good idea.  I decided to hire an Advanced Services guy through Cisco (really I'm not plugging Cisco here, I'm advocating their service).  The guy in question was a friend of mine who years ago worked for someone else, which is how I met him.  To make a long story short, this really is the only "expert" I know and trust. Once he was onsite we certainly used him for the reason he was here, but during lunch hours and other down time, we discuss LOTS of design ideas, including our outdoor Football stadium and our Basketball stadium.  Granted, we don't have the seating some of you have stated here but I wanted the design ready for when I get asked....still not asked, yet.  I'm sure some day I will be, and I'm ready for the design. All of this being said, their AS wireless team have a pretty remarkable track record with large stadiums.  I can't for the life of me remember the few he quickly named, but in general they were NFL stadiums.  If they can design for something that large, they can certainly design your areas. I would gladly discuss my history, design/architecture, wireless stories, but would also prefer "off list". Lee H Badman wrote: 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 have done 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 to call, 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/. -- Scott Smith  Network Engineering Information Technology Southern Illinois University Carbondale  Redhat Certified Engineer ssm...@siu.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.