
π Sports & Fitness Β· Network
The network of a sports stadium: fan Wi-Fi, ticket scanners, broadcast feeds, point-of-sale and security systems.
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Stadium network topology: a core switch and firewall with dual internet links. Separate networks for high-density fan Wi-Fi, ticket turnstiles and scanners (with offline validation), food and merchandise POS (PCI), broadcast and scoring (isolated, low latency to the OB van), CCTV and security operations, and the big screens and scoreboard.
flowchart TD
NET1((Internet Link 1))
NET2((Internet Link 2))
FW[Firewall Cluster]
CORE[Core Switch]
NET1 --- FW
NET2 --- FW
FW --- CORE
subgraph FANS["Fan Wi-Fi"]
AP[High-density Access Points]
end
subgraph GATES["Ticketing"]
TS[Turnstile Scanners]
end
subgraph POSN["POS (PCI)"]
POS[Food and Merchandise POS]
end
subgraph BCAST["Broadcast and Scoring"]
SCORE[Scoring System]
OB[Broadcast OB Van]
end
subgraph SEC["Security"]
CCTV[CCTV Cameras]
SOC[Security Control Room]
end
BOARD[Big Screens and Scoreboard]
CORE --- AP
CORE --- TS
CORE --- POS
CORE --- SCORE
SCORE --- OB
SCORE --- BOARD
CORE --- CCTV --- SOCHow live scores reach millions of fans within a second: official scorers, the data feed, stream processing, caching and push notifications.
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