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Practical notes on venue networks, IT support and the technology behind live events.
Keeping a Public Venue Online: MikroTik and Huawei in a Real Arena Network
the network of a busy sports and esports arena in Erbil: separate VLANs for staff, guests, gaming PCs, POS and cameras, a Huawei firewall at the edge, MikroTik routing, and QoS that keeps tournament traffic first.
MikroTikHuaweiNetwork EngineeringFirewallVLANQoSEsportsErbilIraqKurdistan
Read article Running IT for a live event: what I check before the doors open
A live event gives you no maintenance window. This is the checklist I run through before an esports festival or a launch event starts.
Event technologyOperationsEsports
Read article Why a venue network needs VLANs before it needs more bandwidth
Guest Wi-Fi, point-of-sale terminals and production PCs on one flat network is the most common cause of the outages I get called about. Here is how I split them up.
NetworkingVLANMikroTik
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