Golden State Warriors and Chase Center Elevate Immersive Fan Experiences with Aruba Wi-Fi 6E
October 04 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Chase Center Becomes First Arena in North
America to Deploy Wi-Fi 6E, Enabling Fans to Connect and Share
Moments from Games, Concerts and Events
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that as part of its commitment to providing modern,
immersive experiences for fans and guests, the seven-time National
Basketball Association (NBA) Champion Golden State Warriors have
deployed Aruba Wi-Fi 6E access points (APs) at their world-class
live entertainment venue, Chase Center, located in San Francisco.
This implementation marks the first Wi-Fi 6E network at a live
entertainment venue in North America, and significantly increases
available bandwidth in the arena as fans embrace streaming,
uploading content and other high-bandwidth activities during
events. This also ensures ample bandwidth for stadium operations,
IoT implementations, and experience-related services such as
in-seat ordering and contactless payment.
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The Golden State Warriors have deployed
Aruba Wi-Fi 6E access points (APs) at their world-class live
entertainment venue, Chase Center, located in San Francisco. This
implementation marks the first Wi-Fi 6E network at a live
entertainment venue in North America, and significantly increases
available bandwidth in the arena as fans embrace streaming,
uploading content and other high-bandwidth activities during
events. (Source: Golden State Warriors; Photo Credit: Jason
O'Rear)
Chase Center seats more than 18,000 for Warriors games. The
arena also hosts concerts, comedians and other events.
Additionally, the complex boasts Thrive City, 100,000 square feet
of restaurant and retail businesses, and 580,000 square feet of
office space across two buildings. As the first arena to deploy
this technology in North America, Chase Center currently has over
250 active Wi-Fi 6E APs in the bowl seating section of the arena.
The Wi-Fi 6E APs were first live with the venue’s Alicia Keys
concert on September 3, 2022.
“The Warriors are obsessed with creating world class
experiences, and providing fast, reliable connectivity for sold out
crowds of 18,000+ fans at games and events at Chase Center is an
incredibly important part of that,” said Warriors President and
Chief Operating Officer, Brandon Schneider. “With the addition of
Wi-Fi 6E Access Points in the arena bowl, we can provide fans a
more immersive experience that we believe is unmatched by any other
professional sporting venue.”
Chase Center’s adoption of Aruba’s enterprise grade Wi-Fi 6E
solution set, which was the first Wi-Fi 6E solution introduced to
the market, includes Aruba’s patented ultra tri-band filtering that
dynamically adjusts the available channels to eliminate signal
interference and performance degradation. The new Wi-Fi 6E APs
allow the arena to centrally configure and automatically enforce
role-based policies across the wired and wireless networks.
Additionally, the APs are IoT-ready with integrated Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE) and Zigbee support to make it easier to deploy and
manage IoT, including asset tracking, security solutions and
sensors.
Chase Center has hosted numerous sold-out events since its
opening in 2019, including every Warriors game and the 2022 NBA
Finals, which saw a peak of over 3.80 TB in use, with over 10,000
unique devices. During the venue’s host duties of the 2022 NCAA
Western Regional, the arena experienced a peak of over 4.05 TB.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Golden State Warriors and Chase
Center on a world-class, future-ready network that delivers an
unparalleled fan experience,” said Stuart Strickland, Wireless CTO
at Aruba. “With Wi-Fi 6E, the Warriors and Chase Center can take
advantage of the increased capacity, wider channels, and
significantly reduced signal interference of 6 GHz and the
location-aware infrastructure of Open Locate. Visitors will enjoy
higher bandwidth, lower latency services and applications such as
HD video, next-generation unified communications, AR/VR, IoT, and
more.”
Additional Resources
- Blog post: Golden State Warriors: Basketball and Wi-Fi 6E
Innovators
- Press release: Golden State Warriors partner with Hewlett
Packard Enterprise to drive connected experiences for Chase
Center
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 as part of the HPE GreenLake family, 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
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for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
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