Fans of the Durham, N.C., Bulls Minor League Baseball team can now access fast, free cloud-based Wi-Fi in the park and the surrounding American Tobacco Historic District, according to a Nov. 11 announcement from Frontier Communications.
Frontier recently installed ADTRAN’s ProCloud Wi-Fi, a managed cloud wireless service that can support capacity spikes associated with packed games and offers fans the ability to use in-game features like viewing replays of the on-field action using a mobile device.
In addition to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the new installation also covers some 100 surrounding businesses in the adjacent American Tobacco Historic District.
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Bulls GM Mike Birling said the improved service will allow fans “to interact with us on game day like never before.”
Meggin Sawyer, ADTRAN’s VP of sales, said the new deployment “streamlines the delivery of reliable, highly available cloud-managed services so that service providers like Frontier can quickly meet customer needs, easily scale to address new capacity demands and offload time-consuming network management activities.”
Sawyer said the improved capacity could result “in a greatly enhanced fan experience and new revenue opportunities for the campus.”
A portion of the coverage area is known as the American Underground, physically located beneath street level, which hosts co-working space for remote employees and burgeoning startup companies.
ADTRAN is a network and communication hardware provider. The ProCloud Wi-Fi system, built on Bluesocket vWLAN, is billed by the company as a “no worry” solution.
