Re: Big Temporary Networks

[Josh Baird <joshbaird () gmail com>]

We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions
and festivals.  The product is fairly cheap, robust, and their access
points have very good range.  We have deployed it at several commercial
businesses as well with great success.  The deployment is very easy.  We
run the controller on a VM at our NOC, but you can also run it locally at
the event as well.

Besides this, we have a fairly beefy box that handles DNS and DHCP and
basic firewalling.

Josh

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3 () gmail com> wrote:

> The 2015 WorldCon site selection is contested. There is a group
> seeking selection for the Disney Coronado Spring Resort in Florida but
> also competing groups seeking Spokane, Washington, and Helsinki,
> Finland.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> > My best friend just got back from Chicon 7 last week, this year's World
> > Science Fiction Convention.  He tells me that the networking at the con
> hotel,
> > the Chicago Hyatt, was miserable, whether wired or wireless... and that
> Sprint
> > 4G wasn't much better.
> >
> > I'm talking to the people who will probably be, in 2015, running the
> first
> > Worldcon I can practically drive to, in Orlando, at -- I think -- the
> Disney
> > World Resort.  I've told them how critical the issue is for this market;
> they,
> > predictably, replied "We look forward to your patch".  :-}
> >
> > I know without a doubt that this is a problem NANOG PCs deal with 3
> times a
> > year; is there any collected wisdom on the web already about how this has
> > been dealt with, that I can pore over?  Pointers to good archive threads?
> >
> > If not, do any of the people who've already done have 5 minutes to chime
> in
> > on what they did and what they learned?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
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