Sonoma County Fairgrounds Selects Comcast Business to Bolster Connectivity for Sonoma’s Largest Event of the Year
18 Janvier 2023 - 04:00PM
Business Wire
Private wireless network deployed in
partnership with Celona Inc. improves the Sonoma County Fair
experience for thousands of visitors and vendors alike
Comcast Business today announced that it has teamed with Celona
Inc. to provide Sonoma County Fairgrounds – the home to the
renowned Sonoma County Fair – with an advanced private wireless
network solution to enhance the fair experience and help improve
back-of-house operations across the fairgrounds.
For more than 84 years, the Sonoma County Fair has grown to
become one of the most popular in the state, famous for its
top-quality horse racing, stunning flower show, and constant
innovations in family entertainment. After experiencing slow
connectivity that resulted in a poor vendor and customer
experience, the fairgrounds recognized the need to upgrade its
network to support the tens of thousands of people that flood the
property each year.
“We are very happy with the quality of service we’ve received
and how quickly Comcast Business was able to install and deploy
this private wireless network,” said Rebecca Bartling, CEO, Sonoma
County Fairgrounds. “This state-of-the-art network will bolster our
back-of-house operations, as well as our relationships with the
vendors, who are critical to ensuring the annual, two-week long
Sonoma County Fair is a success.”
Enterprises, government agencies and venues of all types, can
now benefit from private cellular networks for wireless performance
demanded by today’s applications, while enabling them to support
their rapidly expanding ecosystem of connected devices.
Offering extended wireless coverage, enhanced broadband speeds
and capacity along with increased reliability and low latency,
private wireless networks satisfy application requirements.
“Congested cellular and Wi-Fi networks are pain points for
outdoor venues across the country,” said Brian Epstein, Head of
Strategic Wireless Solutions, Comcast Business. “Private wireless
network technologies provide a 'HOV lane' for the fairgrounds and
dedicated spectrum for priority operations to ensure events like
the Sonoma County Fair deliver a rich experience for patrons and
vendors.”
Working with Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Comcast Business
designed and deployed a dedicated private cellular wireless network
that coupled Comcast CBRS spectrum Priority Access Licenses (PALs)
with Celona’s 5G LAN products and technology.
Comcast Business partnered closely with Celona on the private
wireless deployment, leveraging its enterprise 5G LAN system that
fully integrates 4G/5G core software, outdoor CBRS access points,
and cloud-based orchestration and management within a unified
platform. The combination of these technologies allows for fast and
simplified deployment of private cellular networks with improved
monitoring and management of the overall infrastructure.
The private wireless network was used to support back-of house
operations for the fairgrounds, including point of sale (PoS)
systems for ticket purchases, parking, concessions and more. This
allowed the Fairgrounds to provide network reliability by using
Comcast Business’s dedicated spectrum, while delivering the
wireless connectivity and bandwidth required for each
application.
“We view private wireless technology as completely
transformational for the enterprise,” said Rob Mustarde, VP of
Worldwide Sales at Celona. “With 5G LANs, organizations can now
bring deterministic wireless connectivity and performance to
challenging use cases that conventional wireless was simply not
designed to address within a familiar framework that directly
adapts to their existing network investments.”
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