Meeting pros might not know a router from a hard drive, but they must understand their events’ bandwidth needs. The most important thing to know in order to determine this is:
How many attendees typically download the event app
How many attendees plan to stream video
Peak bandwidth use and peak number of devices connected at a previous conference
The bandwidth coming into the facility
If you don’t yet have a Wi-Fi history for your meeting, questions to ask in order to determine bandwidth needs and Wi-Fi access include:
How will presenters and attendees use
the Wi-Fi?
How many attendees are you expecting and how many devices will they have?
Where in the venue will Wi-Fi demand be highest?
All of the above
Wi-Fi consumers at hotels and convention centers can use the facility’s Wi-Fi, use their own personal wireless “hotspots,” or hire an outside network provider.
Correct
Incorrect
It depends on the facility.
What’s the primary downside when exhibitors bring their own private wireless networks to your events?
Those exhibitors’ Wi-Fi use isn’t accounted for in your Wi-Fi history
Private Wi-Fi networks may interfere with the venue’s wireless network
Lost revenue
All of the above
A wireless access point (AP) is a device that allows wireless devices, like cell phones and tablets, to connect to a wired network. How many meeting attendees can be supported by one access point?
20–50
30–60
50-100
It depends
A meeting app becomes part of the Wi-Fi discussion when it…
Is designed as a mobile Web app
Encourages photo or video uploading
Includes gamification
All of the above
If the Internet service provider (ISP) is the company that brings broadband service to the meeting facility, then what does the network service provider (NSP) do?
Designs meeting apps that aid networking at the event
Sells the access points and routers to the venue
Manages and supports the wired and wireless network within a venue
An ISP is the same as a NSP
The more wireless access points in your event space, the better your Wi-Fi experience, assuming you’ve got the wired bandwidth to support them.
True
False
Not necessarily
Wireless Internet devices run on radio waves, transmitting at what frequency?
2.4GHz
5.0GHz
Both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz
Some convention industry associations, convention centers, and related organizations are now working together to establish standard operating principles and “common sense standards” to ensure reliable Wi-Fi for meetings. This group is called:
The Wi-Fi Coalition
APEX Bandwidth and Connectivity Workgroup
Meeting Wi-Fi International
Professional Convention Wi-Fi Management
This cutting-edge technology has been shown to stream data at speeds 100 times faster than Wi-Fi, and in the next five years could be the next big thing in data transfer:
El-Fi (data transmission through electricity)
Li-Fi (data transmission through light)
H2O-Fi (data transmission through water)
Mi-Fi (data transmission through skin)
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