Ruckus Wireless has announced that it has been selected by Rio Tinto Stadium, a 28,000-seat outdoor stadium in Salt Lake City, the Chennai Stadium, a 50,000-seat stadium in India, and more than two dozen other high-density public venues around the world to provide high-capacity Smart Wi-Fi products and technology for a variety of public access applications.
Chennai Stadium and Rio Tinto Stadium are the latest additions to a growing list of public venues such as convention centers and conference halls worldwide that are turning to reliable, high-speed Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi, including Unique Requirements for Deploying High-Density Wi-Fi.
The nature of high-density environments, where thousands of simultaneous users must be supported in a confined space, presents a unique set of challenges that conventional, enterprise Wi-Fi systems simply aren’t able to handle.
The requirements for high-density environments run counter to traditional enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments. Instead of optimizing for broad Wi-Fi signal coverage with the fewest number of access points, Wi-Fi networks within stadiums and other high-density environments require large numbers of access points (APs) to get the needed capacity and very high spectral reuse. When large numbers of APs are deployed in close proximity, it creates the potential for interference. Ruckus BeamFlex adaptive antenna technology is ideally suited to this kind of environment as it enables RF energy to be focussed at the user. This increases the signal gain, which provides for a much better user experience. It also reduces the radio frequency (RF) energy that neighbouring APs might see, which provides for greater interference mitigation.
High capacity Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi solutions meet the demanding access and security requirements of the different Wi-Fi networks used in large, public venues, such as those for point-of-sale (POS), ticketing, business management systems, guest and contractors, special events, and Internet and walled garden access for fans. Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi high-capacity solutions also optimize the capacity for all client devices, meet the stringent aesthetic requirements of stadiums, overcome the RF interference often introduced by wireless devices brought in for special events, and provide system-wide features for securely managing hundreds of access points and thousands of users.
Rio Tinto has 100 Ruckus APs deployed, a combination of Ruckus ZoneFlex 7782-N (narrow beam) outdoor APs, which are mounted on the catwalks above seating areas, and dual-band Ruckus ZoneFlex 7363 indoor APs that provide coverage in the concourses, press boxes, and business offices.
