But density and usage patterns are much different. Someone is a Disney park is much less likely to be streaming Netflix in HD compared to someone on a college campus, for example. Additionally they are covering lots of open spaces without as many pesky walls to block signals. I suspect their average bandwidth usage per guest is much lower than the average bandwidth usage per student.
Thomas Carter Network & Operations Manager / IT Austin College 900 North Grand Avenue Sherman, TX 75090 Phone: 903-813-2564 www.austincollege.edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disney's Free Wi-Fi > On Mar 3, 2017, at 13:22, Bob Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to a wireless engineer at Disney, the WLAN infrastructure in > Orlando consists of about 3,500 Cisco and Aruba APs across resorts, 4 theme > parks etc. That seems like a low number to me, considering the AP counts I’ve seen us throw around here on the list for our campuses. -- Julian Y. Koh Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key: <https://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** 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.
