Case Study: National Event Center Entertainment achieves validated high‑performance Wi‑Fi and improved fan experience with Keysight (Ixia)

Entertainment Arena Validates New Cutting-Edge Wi-Fi Services

National Event Center Entertainment Company needed to deploy 21st‑century Wi‑Fi to support paid in‑stadium services (seat ordering/payment, live interactive content, navigation) but wanted the system validated first after past technology failures. They engaged Keysight (an Ixia business) to validate network performance and tiered service delivery using the IxChariot and IxVeriWave testing products.

Keysight deployed IxChariot to place endpoints across the arena and simulate real‑world application loads, measuring throughput, packet loss, jitter, delay and MOS, and used IxVeriWave to scan radio coverage and frequency plans. The testing uncovered two application‑affecting switching defects (fixed), eliminated a bottleneck to reduce latency, and found/co‑resolved co‑channel interference and a coverage gap by adjusting the frequency plan and adding a radio—results that reduced latency, optimized radio coverage, fixed two defects, and (per the customer) saved hundreds of man‑hours while giving confidence to launch paid services.