Cisco Connected Stadium

After going over, reviewing and learning about the various types of wireless designs introduced to us this week, I found it quite easy to pin point one that I would use for a large stadium. Cisco, hands down, seems to the best there is in the business.

Implementing a Cisco Connected Stadium improves business functions and creates new, fun and exciting in-stadium experiences for fans. Sports venues across America all face the same problem; how can they enhance the in-stadium experience so that its just as good or surpasses the comfortable personalized experience each fan gets at home. Year after year, sports teams are seeing a major decline in in-game or in-stadium attendance because the at home experience is virtually unbeatable.

What I like about Cisco’s Network is that it seems to seamlessly connect all forms of access, communications, entertainment and video feed, sponsorships and stadium operations onto one innovative platform. Cisco provides stadiums with the important flexibility it needs to go hand in hand with delivering enhanced experiences for fans while in-stadium at a live event. This system even supports and generates new revenue streams and offers cost-effective and efficient ways to manage daily operations. Imagine being able to order food right from your seat using a network that Cisco would be able to provide fans while sitting in their seats. Tools and features like this deliver endless possibilities and could open up doors to all sorts of additional revenue streams.

Cisco also goes the extra mile to make sure its stadiums are 100% connected in every sense. They provide the Wi-Fi strength and signals fans need in order to easily upload and share live game content and data with their friends online virtually glitch free.  They are aware and familiar with a sports stadiums infrastructure and they know the do’s and don’ts of placing and integrating access points in the appropriate spaces/places. For example, they keep important access points away from elevator shafts and steel beams that are scattered throughout a traditional sports stadium. The elements related to these steel objects interfere with an access points signal…knowing this is imperative when building a network that should support thousands of people all at the same time.

Here are just a few of Cisco’s Wi-Fi Specifications that assist them in providing fans with an innovative and elaborative in-stadium experience:

- Support for 802.11 a/b/g/n

- Wide variety of 2.4- and 5-GHz access points and antennas

- Specialized hardware like stadium grade antennas

- Cisco BandSelect technology for encouraging device to use the less crowded 5-GHz band

- Cisco VLAN Select feature for grouping VLANS to accommodate very large pools of Wi-Fi devices

- Cisco ClientLink technology to improve the uplink and downlink performance of 802.11a/g clients

Information Found Here: http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/sports/c78-675063_dSheet.pdf