Wireless Up for Democratic Debate

HTC's wireless network team has the Wireless connectivity online!

I'm sitting in the Theater here at The Palace typing this blog. Enjoying the high speed connectivity that HTC will be providing for the SC Democratic debate.

Just to give everyone some perspective on this project, prior to beginning the wireless build-out it was determined The Palace needed some infrastructure updates to be able to handle the SC Democratic Debate. The experts at HTC were ready for the challenge. With the exception of some office areas, The Palace only had single line telephone wire in place. As the official Communications provider, HTC was poised to handle the infrastructure updates necessary to provide Fiber to The Palace and then provide the internal networking needs of the building. The team at HTC needed to put CAT5 cabling (necessary for network connectivity) and RG-6 cable (necessary for Cable TV) throughout the building. We took the new internal cabling and connected it to the Fiber backbone. We now have a network capable of handling massive amounts of data at amazing speeds. A Gigabit Fiber connection to the internet is in place. Now HTC will use the internal network to deploy the wireless technology. Using technologies from Cisco, Bluesocket, SonicWALL, and HP we will deploy Access Points and a Controller based system that will allow both Guest Access and Secure connectivity based upon a users login credentials. Multiple Controllers will be deployed to insure maximum uptime using "fail-over" capabilities. The Access Points are also physically located to provide maximum coverage and fail-over redundancy.

And guess what! That's only the "half" of it. Now that we've completed all of this at The Palace Theater, we're going to do it all over at Phillips Seafood for the Press/Media Center located there.