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The Data Perfect Storm

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The perfect storm of wireless data hit our San Francisco and Bay Area wireless networks last week.

  • Oracle Open World brought in the people and our networks observed almost triple the typical number of wireless connected devices at our hospitality and enterprise clients.
  • The iPhone iOS update then pushed bandwidth usage and data downloads to a new level. It seemed everywhere we looked iPhones were downloading the update.
  • We even had a IT manager asking where was all this traffic was coming from while he admitted he was currently updating his iPhone

Fortunately for our clients SF WiFi designs and installs high capacity and high speed wireless networks. We did not have one downed wireless network, one system reboot or a single screaming hotel general manager during this data perfect storm.

In fact this “data storm” was a great time for us to observe our network infrastructure under increased stress, look at config options and offer clients tweaks to optimize performance.

And congratulations to Oracle Team USA for winning the America’s Cup.

During the weeks of competition SF WiFi caught small views of the races as we commuted the city from project to project.

Racing on the Bay
Racing on the Bay

 

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Oakland Hotel Wireless Solution

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The Clarion Hotel in downtown Oakland saw the need to upgrade their wireless network. The Clarion understands the need for guest internet services and contacted SF WiFi for a wireless solution.
This project entails saturating the property with signal for guest rooms, and common areas. Our wireless solution provides superior coverage, capacity and ease of use management features to seamlessly support today’s mobile user. SF WiFi specializes in hospitality wireless solutions and has designed, installed and supports wireless in 10 of the top 25 Bay Area TripAdvisor ranked hotels.

Contact SF WiFi for more details

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Wireless Trending

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We’ve read many articles this week about wireless offloading–802.11ac, 802.11u, in general, the future of wireless. This caught us reflecting on our clients’ wireless progressions.

We have a hotel client in San Francisco supporting wireless at their 16 story/120 room property. In the past year alone we have seen their guest wireless usage increase to more than double.

In 2011 we would see stats of 20-25 users passing 8GB of data. We now see 80 concurrently connected devices, passing 25-40GB of data a day. That’s practically a four fold increase of data in just a little over a year and these numbers are consistent across all our wireless hotel clients.

Our Take on Wireless Trending:
User capacity increases: mobile device driven
Bandwidth usage increases: video driven
Cell phone offloading: hasn’t occurred too much, this is the next trend
Coverage: everywhere. WiFi is not just in the lobby anymore
User expectations: system uptime, stability, ease of use, free
Customer expectations: coverage, stability, support WMM (data voice video),
Management features: simple dashboard view of system and usage stats.

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SF WiFi Reseller Product Announcement: Fusion 300 Wireless LAN Controller and Fusion 50 access points by U4EA Technologies

Ron Wilhelm

 The Fusion 300 WLAN controller and Fusion 50 802.11b/g access point are designed specifically for small-to-midsize businesses (SMB), which often lack wireless expertise. This WLC offers Enterprise features, such as fast roaming and rogue-access-point detection and mitigation and offers a simple Web-based user interface and wizards for fast deployment.

 

The Fusion 300 is the ideal WLAN Controller for next generation Wi-Fi networks for the small to medium sized business (SMB), providing an unmatched voice and data mobility solution.

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