WI-FI SOLUTION FOR LARGE OUTDOOR CROWDS: STADIUMS, EVENTS AND FESTIVALS
Media events and large festivals are now regularly held in stadiums and outdoor entertainment venues, making the most of the space and scale available to serve thousands of attendees.
Overview
Solution overview
Media events and large festivals are now regularly held in stadiums and outdoor entertainment venues, making the most of the space and scale available to serve thousands of attendees. Demand for internet access during the event is very high, as everyone continuously posts status updates, photographs and news to mass media and social networks from their mobile devices.
Installing Wi-Fi for these events is therefore essential, but it brings real challenges: serving thousands of users, covering a very large area and rejecting interference. Designing and building Wi-Fi for outdoor events is no small task.
WiCell's Wi-Fi hotspot solution supplies purpose-built equipment for an intelligent outdoor Wi-Fi system with the muscle to serve thousands of users, and it deploys easily and quickly thanks to WiCell's leading technologies.
Solution highlights
Supports 200 concurrent users per AP
Every WiCell device has powerful hardware, allowing 100 – 200 concurrent users on a single access point. A deployment therefore needs far fewer units while still serving thousands of users.
Unlimited expansion with Dynamic Mesh Bridging technology
WiCell's Dynamic Mesh Bridging lets access points link to one another wirelessly and automatically, with no device configuration, forming a Matrix Mesh Wireless fabric that provides internet access without cabling to every access point. Adding a new access point is simply plug and play.
Purpose-built outdoor equipment meeting industrial safety protection standards
WiCell outdoor APs all hold IP65 and IP67 industrial safety certification, so they work well outdoors in harsh weather and stay durable and stable thanks to protection against dust, water, sunlight, salt-air ingress and impact.
Wi-Fi marketing solution applied
Combined with the WiCell Marketing solution, event organisers can push advertising and collect user information as guests connect to the Wi-Fi and go online. WiCell's Wi-Fi marketing solution saves a business money on communications and customer outreach compared with traditional methods.
Delivers high bandwidth with 100% interference rejection
WiCell access points all support the newest 802.11ac/n Wi-Fi standard across both the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands at once, providing up to 1200 Mbps of bandwidth for very fast access, while their interference rejection keeps connections stable and uninterrupted.
Continuous connectivity on the move
Smart Roaming lets users' mobile devices move anywhere within the coverage area without fear of dropping the connection, much like handover on a mobile network. Users can move continuously between access points without reconnecting, while their sessions carry on undisturbed.
Straightforward user access management
WiCell's Wi-Fi hotspot solution supplies a centralised WLAN Controller for monitoring and managing every user on the system. It also provides security, bandwidth management, link load balancing and device status monitoring, so administrators can set network policies that suit their own deployment.
