On May 8, 2014, at 5:27 PM, John Kaftan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I find this solution intriguing. I plan to deploy it small scale for a side job (only about 5-6 APs). The cost is very low. I wonder if it could scale to a stadium deployment. http://www.open-mesh.com/ I looked into it for some cheap designs. 2.4 GHz only. That is pretty limiting for a stadium! Also, Enterasys\Extreme has has some success building out stadiums. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/01/15/extreme-networks-chosen-as-official.html?page=all http://www.citeworld.com/article/2115627/mobile-byod/philadelphia-eagles-wifi-enterasys.html On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Erik, Our data agrees with Mike’s statements. We recently ran a survey polling our students. The results were positive. But in order to have a successfully deployment you want to have both a DAS and an engineered 802.11 wireless infrastructure. Because of the many variables the channels need to be statically set and have to overlap perfectly. Physics plays a bigger role more than ever in a stadium deployment because of the scale and open air. Airtime is key! We are currently looking at DAS solutions and Aruba Network’s Wi-Fi recommendations to improve our Stadium wireless experience. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer – Wireless Team IT Network Services (434) 592-4229<tel:%28434%29%20592-4229> LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Ball, Erik [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 3:24 PM Subject: Stadium WiFi It’s been about a year since Stadium WiFi has come up on this list, so I wanted to see if there has been any movement towards a large scale stadium WiFi deployment by anyone? We looked into this a little less than a year ago, and it would be quite pricey given that it would be really only utilized 1 season of the year. However, the topic is coming up again (as part of envisioning the perfect fan experience), and it would be nice to see where other people stood on this. If so, can you share where you are at in the process, and the vendor that you selected? However, it sounds like working through cellular/DAS arrangements has been more popular/widespread than bothering with stadium WiFi. If you chose DAS, without bothering with 802.11 coverage, did that satisfy people? Thanks, Erik ********** 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/. -- John Kaftan IT Infrastructure Manager Utica College ********** 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/.
