Excessive-Density Wi-Fi for sports activities and leisure venues is now extra accessible than ever, due to Cisco’s Catalyst 9104. In all of my years working for Cisco, this has been some of the thrilling initiatives I’ve ever labored on. Seeing the method from conception to the primary full everlasting set up at Geodis Park in Nashville, TN has been rewarding and albeit, simply plain cool. Watch the video under!
Geodis Park Stats
The community helps the followers in addition to the enterprise workplace at Geodis Park- Variety of seats: 30,000
- A typical recreation connects 15,000 purchasers on Wi-Fi
- 4 Terabytes of site visitors at a typical recreation
- Cisco Catalyst 9104 reaches purchasers at as much as 130 ft
- Gives patrons the comfort of cellular ticketing and concessions
The way it went down!
Again in September of 2020, throughout the workplace shutdowns attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote my first-ever weblog. I talked about how Cisco engineers have been utilizing the downtime to create new merchandise that might be prepared when the world got here again out to play. The Catalyst 9104 is the results of that work.
New Product Targets:
- Decrease Value
- A lot less complicated to deploy
- Didn’t require an enclosure
- Means to beam swap, beam steer
- Serve wifi purchasers at a higher distance
- Leading to Excessive-density Wi-fi that adjustments the sport
Quick ahead to October 2022 and I used to be capable of see the outcomes of that work. I joined Ken Martin, Head of Cisco’s Sports activities and Leisure gross sales together with Invoice Anderson, President/CEO of Cisco associate Ampthink, at Geodis Park in Nashville, TN to take a look at the very first everlasting set up of the Cisco Catalyst 9104. Positive, there have been different 9104 installs, however they have been smaller short-term pageant and convention networks. In distinction, the community at Geodis Park was designed from day 1 with the 9104 because the centerpiece.
It was so cool having the ability to witness the product that we had spent effectively over a yr growing (thanks once more COVID-19) working precisely as we had designed it to. That is what I like about working at Cisco. This undertaking was what engineers like me (and others) reside for.
- We sat down with clients and companions and get their suggestions on what they needed…. what they wanted from Cisco prior to constructing it.
- Then we took that info again to our {hardware} design groups, product administration groups, software program, and check groups.
- It was a sequence of improvements, testing, re-testing, validating, and at last…
- Delivering to the group which had trusted us to design their community across the 9104 earlier than it was even obtainable on the market!
Very hardly ever is somebody capable of see the total course of from finish to finish.
Hats off to all of the wonderful groups at Cisco that labored on this product and to the shoppers and companions that supplied precious suggestions from the very starting, you already know who you’re.
The Catalyst 9104 has modified the high-density wi-fi recreation. Now followers at Geodis Park can sit again and benefit from the recreation.
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