Xirrus Wi-Fi Chosen to Cover Prestigious Edgbaston Cricket Ground
Established as a Test Cricket venue for over 100 years, and designed to meet the highest specifications, the Edgbaston Cricket Ground has a long and proud history as the finest indoor cricket facility in the United Kingdom. Situated at Edgbaston, the home of Warwickshire County Cricket, the centre boasts a range of facilities to meet cricket, community and corporate needs. It is the only International Test stadium within the West Midlands and in an average year, major matches staged at the ground attract up to 200,000 spectators.
Requirements
- Replace wired workgroup switches
- Provide sufficient bandwidth to large groups of journalists covering cricket matches
- Minimum devices installed and ability to support PCs, MACs, and PDAs
- Support for data, voice and large image files
- Easy management and long term ROI
Benefits
- Only the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array is powerful enough to replace the workgroup switch
- Ubiquitous and uninterrupted coverage, user density, and bandwidth
- Controller based solution to support roaming and QoS
- Fewer devices installed to result in less cabling, switch ports, cost, installation time and maintenance
Savings
- Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
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1:5 |
- Number of additional access points saved
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20 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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20 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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20 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
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3,942 |