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moments with your friends in real The biggest challenge of Stadium Wi-Fi system is to avoid interference between
time. Why not take a selfie and post access points and achieve optimal user performance when hundreds of access
it in social media? points are installed to serve thousands of users in an open bowl area of stadium.
Providing enough internet This requires sophisticated Wi-Fi radio network design capability and experience
bandwidth to tens of thousands of that Comba accumulate through its world market leading cellular wireless
Smartphone users inside the enhancement solutions over years. The radio signal of each access point must be
stadium is nearly a mission very focus to the target area only and sharply reduce out of this area. The access
impossible for 3G/LTE network. point can install at the rooftop, catwalks or overhangs construction and pointing
down with narrow beam width antenna, thus the Wi-Fi signal covers the target
In this case, Wi-Fi is a good choice area like a spotlight.
to solve this kind of high capacity
requirement as all Smartphone Typically, each access points target covers 200 to 250 seats only. In some
support Wi-Fi, and it’s a good scenario, the access point can install beneath the blow seating area and pointing
complement for mobile operator to up.
offload their cellular network. The Intelligent User Allocation
stadium owner can also provide
There are only 3 non-overlapping channels in 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band while there are
Wi-Fi access as a value-added
much more non-overlapping channel and less problem in interference between
service.
access points in 5GHz. Also, there are growing numbers of Smartphone
supporting 5GHz band. It is critical stadium Wi-Fi access point to support dual
 Support central management for band concurrent operation to provide enough capacity. The stadium Wi-Fi system
large scale deployment must have intelligent band steering feature to allocate all 5GHz This allow better
user performance less interference problem in 2.4GHz band.
Another important features for stadium Wi-Fi system is load balancing between
APs. Hundreds of APs in the bowl areas, users may not even distributed among all
APs or connected to AP closer to them. The stadium Wi-Fi system should be

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Stadium Wi-Fi Solution
 Radio network design
expertise for high density
Wi-Fi network.
 Intelligent allocation of Wi-Fi
user to different frequency
band and access points.
 Central management of
access points
 One stop solution for Stadium
mobile and Wi-Fi coverage
solution. Cost reduction and
efficient project management.
 Wi-Fi Infrastructure Sharing to
stadium owner, operators and
ISP
Brazil 2014 Soccer Tournament
centrally managed by the controller which perform load balancing and support
seamless roaming between APs.
All Comba access point can be centrally managed and configured by access
controller. It saves tremendous method for IT management. We provide various
kind of access controller solution range from 128 to 1024 APs capacity. The access
controller supports hot standby redundancy to enhance the system reliability.
Total Wireless Coverage Solution
Leverage to Comba world leading solution provider for stadium cellular coverage
and capacity solution with deployment in Brazil 2014 Soccer Tournament and
Sochi 2014 Winter Games, Comba also offers Wi-Fi solution as total wireless
coverage solution provider for Stadium. Building cellular and Wi-Fi system together
can have great synergy benefit in both radio coverage design, civil work
co-ordination and project management. In return, the cost and duration of the
deployment can be greatly reduced.
Wi-Fi Infrastructure Sharing
The same stadium Wi-Fi system can share among stadium owner, mobile operator
and ISP. Comba Wi-Fi system supports multiple SSIDs and virtual LAN isolation
between different SSID. Each SSID can have independent user access method,
WEB\shared key\EAP-SIM. Bandwidth control between SSIDs to allows fair use of
Wi-Fi bandwidth among different SSID.
Stadium owner can use for VIP, guest and stadium operation. Mobile operator can
use Wi-Fi to offload the mobile network. Infrastructure sharing can be based on
joint contribution or rental.

Location: Brasilia Stadium, Brazil

70064 seats
Deployment: 72 indoor APs + 141
outdoor APs.
6 SSID for 5 operators with
Web/EAP-SIM authentication.
Result: 10236 W-iFi users 81.8GB
data in 1 hour

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