C3 Wireless Meetings and Events
Real-time and historical monitoring of wired and wireless users on a total or per access point basis
Real-time and historical monitoring of wired and wireless users on a total or per access point basis
Edge Caching significantly reduces the amount of expensive bandwidth needed to support common end-user traffic
Centralized management and control with real-time visualization into the wireless network
Real-time and historical bandwidth usage ensures enough bandwidth is available without wasting money for ordering too much bandwidth
Typical wireless network topology using venue Internet and wiring between rooms
Real-time and historical bandwidth usage ensures enough bandwidth is available without wasting money for ordering too much bandwidth
Real-time and historical bandwidth usage ensures enough bandwidth is available without wasting money for ordering too much bandwidth
Real-time and historical bandwidth usage ensures enough bandwidth is available without wasting money for ordering too much bandwidth
Understanding how bandwidth is being used allows the ability to prioritize traffic to ensure a highly-available production network
C3-Wireless Live Meetings & Events
C3-Wireless Custom Network Advantages
Using a Custom Wired and Wireless Network offers several important advantages over the typical venue wireless network.
Because the custom-built solution is based specifically on the coverage and capacity requirements of the end-user, a consistent, high-performance system is achievable. The venue's network may work well in certain places while failing in others, most notably in breakout rooms where the venue network was not designed for higher capacities.
The team that designs and implements the custom-built wireless network is onsite and immediately reachable, providing pro-active monitoring and support throughout the entire meeting. The venue's entry-level technicians do not typically monitor the event and must be contacted if issues or changes arise. These technicians will usually then have to contact an offsite Network Operations Center unfamiliar with the local system in order to actually make changes, often taking hours to complete.
The Custom Network uses cutting-edge, enterprise-class Cisco wired and wireless network hardware, not less-expensive mid-tier hardware that fails under heavier loads.
Bandwidth charges are often cost-prohibitive. Users with BYOD Tablets, smart phones, and laptops can quickly consume this limited resource through non-productive use such as large file downloads, media streaming, social networking, games, etc. Because the venue does not control how the bandwidth is used, more bandwidth is required to account for non-production usage.
However, Custom Network packet shapers provide highly-granular control of the network, limiting or blocking unwanted traffic such as video streaming services while providing quality-of-service to production traffic. Edge-caching significantly reduces network traffic such as iPad updates, etc. This means the end-user can do more while paying less for additional bandwidth.
Advanced configurations such as DNS redirection to local servers is easy with the Custom Network solution while not always possible using the venue's system. If the Internet uplink from the venue fails, the Custom Network solution can automatically fail-over to 4G, avoiding a show-stopping event.