Extricom LV-2000 – Large Venue Wireless LAN Switch

Extricom’s Wi-Fi solution for large public venues provides robust connectivity and high throughput for thousands of wireless clients in convention centers, arenas and open air stadiums. Beyond the unmatched capacity, we offer a simple and cost-effective deployment – requiring no complex RF cell planning, and less access points compared to traditional solutions.

Directional Antennas

Our large public venue solution uses high-gain directional antennas, which improve the link budget between access points and mobile clients, providing higher transmission rates and channel availability.

An arena or stadium can be split into a large number of sections using many access points, operating on the same channel, without the risk of RF interference between mobile clients and access points.

Dedicated WLAN Switch

A central switch, the LV-2000, provides the central management and control of all transmissions and RF interference levels across the site. The switch makes all decisions for packet delivery, while access points funnel client traffic to the switch for processing. Several LV-2000 switches can be deployed in a single site in order to increase system coverage and capacity.

Wireless Client Noise Mitigation

One of the key challenges of Wi-Fi in large public venues is the congested air created by thousands of mobile devices automatically sending data packets in the attempt to detect and connect to the wireless network. Such extreme conditions may prevent any WLAN implementation from serving clients.

Using advanced software algorithms, we significantly lower the excessive `noise’ generated by mobile clients during their connection to the network.

Wi-Fi Optimization

Wi-Fi capacity, reliability and throughput are further optimized with the following Extricom features:

Flexible channel assignment.

Each channel can be configured independently of others, which enables applying different security levels to each channel. Or a specific ESSID can be configured to several channels to provide increased bandwidth for a specific audience group, such as photojournalists or VIP booths.

Wireless client capacity.

Any number of users in a closed arena or an open stadium can be handled, while accommodating a huge number of wireless client connections. Our specific system layout is based on the unique physical characteristics of each site and the expected number of users.

Load balancing

Wireless users can be evenly distributed across multiple LV-2000 switches to provide optimal load balancing.

5GHz band steering

Newer mobile devices that support dual band operation (both 5GHz and 2.4GHz) can be automatically steered to use the less congested 5GHz band, in order to free up bandwidth for smartphones that can only use the 2.4GHz band.