Montreal’s Saputo Stadium Chooses Aruba to Transform the Gameday Experience for MLS Fans
01 Septiembre 2020 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Canada’s Second Largest Soccer Stadium and Home
of the Montreal Impact Reopens Stadium with Aruba Wireless,
Switching and Management Solutions to Engage with Fans and Improve
Operations
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that Saputo Stadium in Montreal, Canada, home of Major
League Soccer’s (MLS) Montreal Impact, is deploying an Aruba
network to deliver reliable, high-performing Wi-Fi and new gameday
experiences to fans, as well as to streamline and automate stadium
operations.
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Saputo Stadium, Canada’s second largest
soccer stadium and home of Major League Soccer’s Montreal Impact,
has deployed an Aruba network to deliver new gameday experiences to
fans and improve operations. (Photo: Business Wire)
Saputo Stadium is part of Montreal’s Olympic Park, originally
built for the 1976 Summer Olympics. With capacity for 19,000+ fans,
the Stadium provides an unobstructed view of the iconic Montreal
tower – the world’s tallest inclined tower – and sits on a 1.6
million square foot complex that includes administrative offices, a
training field and player welfare areas.
Providing fans with in-stadium Wi-Fi, and all of the related
experiences this can enable, was a key driver for the deployment,
according to Saputo’s IT Director, Roger Miron.
“Though the pandemic has caused us to have to delay the start of
our home game play this year, engaging with fans and allowing them
to share their experiences with each other and via social media is
still one of the main hallmarks of the in-stadium experience,”
Miron said. “Implementing a reliable, high performing Wi-Fi network
is the first step in our multi-phase initiative to enable
extraordinary experiences, as well as improve our own stadium
operations, and we’re excited to welcome our fans back to the
stadium.”
Working with partner, Vidéotron, a leader in Canadian
telecommunications and founding sponsor and partner for the
Montreal Impact, Saputo is deploying Aruba access points, mobility
controllers and Aruba core and access switches, as well as AirWave
for network management. Aruba’s turnkey solution that includes
wireless, switching and management, was a key factor in Saputo’s
decision to select Aruba, as was the ability to layer on additional
Aruba technology solutions as the Stadium’s needs grow.
“We knew that Aruba had already been successfully deployed in
many other stadiums and we saw early on that the Aruba
infrastructure was easy to deploy,” Miron said. “In addition, the
Aruba network offers the kind of scalability we need to handle the
expected device density in our Stadium. We’ve engineered the
network to accommodate two devices per attendee, and we’re
confident the Aruba network can handle this load – or more – should
we need to increase that.”
Besides utilizing the network for fan engagement, Saputo Stadium
plans to modernize and improve concessions ordering and delivery,
create more efficient order taking and delivery both in Stadium
suites and for Saputo’s retail vendors. The Stadium also plans to
introduce mobile ticketing and build a mobile app to allow fans to
discover and utilize all of the Stadium’s amenities.
To assist with these plans, Saputo is evaluating additional
Aruba solutions such as Meridian location-based services and Aruba
beacons for applications like in-seat concessions ordering, as well
as analytics so that the Stadium can better understand and
customize services based on its fans’ needs and preferences.
Said Miron, “As we strive to provide our fans with the best
experiences possible in our Stadium, we’ll continue to look for
ways the network can help us and with Aruba, we’re confident that
we can continue down this path.”
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Aruba,
a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global leader in
secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that use AI
to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive powerful
business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) and
as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to
helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial
requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker
environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide
area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com. For
real-time news updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and
for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
products, visit the Airheads Community at
community.arubanetworks.com.
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