Hello,
The University of Wyoming is looking at expanding the wireless services at our stadium and arena to cover fans. Today access is limited and focused on operations like press, ticketing and concessions. At a big game cell can't take the load, fans get nothing, so we're looking at solutions to the problem. These deployments are different than what we do elsewhere on campus and I know some of you can speak from experience on the topic. We have questions on all sorts of things but the design consideration that keeps coming up right now is how should we provision students, faculty and staff during a game as compared to the other fans? The approaches we've discussed include floating our standard authenticated wireless network for their usage during a game, a different authenticated network but the same role or a single network for all fans regardless of their University affiliation. We're familiar with the design that's out there, an in venue authenticated network and an open network and sorting all of the different users out behind the scenes. We think all of these approaches have pros and cons. I'm wondering what you chose to do based on your requirements and how has it worked for you? If you'd like to chat about wireless in large public venues generally I'd be glad to get advice from folks that have been down that road. Thanks, Troy ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
