I saw someone involved with Disney give a presentation at a conference many years ago when they were first starting the project. If I recall correctly, which is increasingly rare these days, I swear he stated they had an ‘aesthetic’ budget of $20K per AP. That was on top of the cost of the technology itself.
On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:03 AM, Reimer, Paul <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I forget the specific area but one of our consultants mentioned APs being concealed in ornamental cast iron lamps (I’m sure they also lit the area some) at a phenomenal cost per unit. They spare little expense to keep things out of sight. -Paul Reimer From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Howard, Christopher Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 4:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disney's Free Wi-Fi One thing that Disney is fantastic at is hiding things in plain sight. I'd be willing to bet you saw them and didn't even realize it. I always look for access points everywhere I go just to see what they use and how they've deployed things. I, likewise, have never seen a single access point when visiting Disney parks. -Christopher On Mar 2, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Hector J Rios <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I just came back from a trip to Disney World and I was blown away about the availability of their Wi-Fi network. It covers all the Disney Hotels, parks (I believe with the exception of the water parks) and the Disney Springs district. From the MAC address of a couple of WAPs, it appears they use Aruba. The coverage is impressive, and the connectivity is good; although reliability is decent, but I can forgive them knowing what a humongous task it takes to deploy such a massive network. Does anybody know any more details about how this network was deployed? I looked and looked for places where I could see WAPs but didn’t see a thing. However they did it, it is impressive. Oh BTW, I did enjoy the park too. ☺ Hector Rios Louisiana State University ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
