Xirrus High-Performance Wi-Fi Successfully Covers Participants at PICNIC 2008
PICNIC is three inspiring days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation in media technology, entertainment, art and science. The PICNIC Conference is a high-level plenary meeting of bright, creative minds and where the world’s best media entrepreneurs, thinkers and creators share their stories. The Conference, held at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, attracts more than 1,500 delegates from all over the world for a series of groundbreaking sessions to enhance, create and improve a global content network through cutting edge technology.
Requirements
- Support large number of connected users simultaneously throughout indoor and outdoor fairground
- Provide seamless roaming for each user
- Handle large numbers of immediate client associations ensuring conference participants quickly get online
- Support for data and Voice over Wi-Fi
- Quick set up and tear down of Wi-Fi network using limited personnel
Benefits
- High-capacity and high-performance network supporting thousands of users concurrently
- Support for data and Voice over Wi-Fi, video streaming, and interactive entertainment on a single infrastructure
- Controller based solution to support roaming and QoS
- Most coverage, throughput, bandwidth, encryption, security and power per device than any other offering
Savings
- Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
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1:8 |
- Number of additional access points saved
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28 |
- Number of additional cable runs saved
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28 |
- Number of switch ports that saved
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28 |
- Average power savings per year (kWh)
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7,884 |