Rio Olympics: 'It’ll be a widely connected games'

Aptilo Networks is working with operators in Brazil to enable Wi-Fi for the Rio Olympics. In a video interview with RCR Wireless News, COO Jonas Jacobsson gave details on the company’s projects in stadiums, at hot spots across Brazil, airports and more.
The company said it is providing solutions to mobile carriers TIM and Oi, as well as internet service provider Linktel.
“TIM and Oi have implemented Aptilo solutions to manage their Wi-Fi subscribers and their networks; and a mechanism to authenticate subscribers automatically, so they can offload data from their macro network to their Wi-Fi network,” he said.
Jacobsson also explained that to attend to a lot of simultaneous users in one location carriers need to have an enough capacity to be able to manage all the Wi-Fi accesses and handle all the sessions. “It’s very import to do the capacity planning,” he noted, during the video interview.

Two years ago, for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, the company worked with TIM, Oi and Linktel providing them mobile data offloading solutions to enable Wi-Fi offloading and carrier Wi-Fi throughout the country and in Maracanã Stadium. For the soccer competition, TIM and Oi tapped the service management platform to provide a carrier Wi-Fi service with mobile data offloading; and Linktel tapped Aptilo SMP to enable and manage mobile data services across its network of Wi-Fi hot spots.
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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series focused on the technology deployments that support the Rio Olympics.