What’s it like to install a wireless network in a casino?  With the help of two others, we lit up ~200 APs at the Ameristar in Black Hawk just a few weeks before the grand opening on 9/29. This was a ton of work, but it was worth it. Here are some photos that I snapped.
One of 6 Cisco Aironet 1130ag access points per floor, locked in an access panel.
One of about 15 IDFs (every 3 floors). APs are connected to a POE switch.
The war room.
In the MDF, fiber connects all the IDFs to the switches above. The two Cisco 4400 WLCs you see each control 100 APs and cost roughly $23K/ea. There’s also a Soekris box running pfSense, a Nomadix 5500ag (for subscriber/guest access), a Cymphonix web filter, and a Servertech IPM-8 rebooter. The main pipe is an OC-3, but guests are limited to 30 Mbits total.
This is a core switch for the admin VLAN (separate from the wireless network). A bit overkill, but cool nonetheless.
Very nice work by Tim McCabe in Denver. Completed structured cabling with 6 guys in 14 months.
Cross-connect for the phone system, and a lot of it.
Construction on floors 32-34 was incomplete; hard hats required.
Installing an AP 40 feet above the Summit room. One of two in this area (capacity of 700), one in the main hall, and another in the service hall directly behind.
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