 So we did this Wi-Fi project a few months ago, and I wanted to do a follow-up video. I didn't want to do the video right after we did the project. I want to do the video after it's had some load put on it, after it's had a lot of users put on it. So a few months and plenty of usage has gone by. Client is really happy. We're happy with the results of this project. Everything's working great. Let's talk a little about the planning and why putting Wi-Fi in a bowling alley requires a little more than your average planning. Well, this is a bowling alley with about 90 lanes in it, and I've this is an aerial view of just how big this building is. It's quite large. Matter of fact, one of the challenges first we had to do was play on a second IDF room to get all the connectivity. Because the problem with the running a cable in a building like this is the building length is about 600 feet long. And once you start adding the turns into the wire, well, wire only has a range of about 330 feet before you have a problem or 100 meters. So we had to have and they already had an IDF room right here kind of in the front of the building. That's where the fiber line comes in that runs this and this is where the other end of the building is. There's party rooms and things like that all over the place. So we put in a second IDF room. It's roughly right in here. How did we do some of the planning and a little bit about this bowling alley? So this bowling alley is been around since the 60s. So that creates a challenge because it wasn't built all at one time. It was built over time and it's quite large, but it's also a series of buildings essentially all tied together. That presents some really interesting challenges. And this is one of the reasons that when it comes to like software that magically will tell me where to put the saturation. You can't rely on it. You kind of have to go onsite and do that. So that's what we did. We came onsite and we walk around the bowling alley. We actually were there also when there weren't users. This is actually some post photos. I didn't take many photos when we were first starting it. But what this is giving you an idea is we brought these unifies to the client. We pre-programmed them. This was the sales pitch. We pre-programmed some of them. They were having trouble with the Wi-Fi they had. We put them put them out on the counters, plugged them in, hooked up to their existing network and seen the range, seeing where some of the dead sparks are. That gave us a better idea. You can get a general idea even using the UniFi software to create some heat maps to try to determine where you think they're going to be. You can also look at different areas because the fire marshal does some of the work for you. They'll put a notice of just how many people and the capacity of each of these areas. You can assume, depending on the type of job it is, but for this because they wanted a guest network was an important aspect to this bowling alley, that there won't be more people in those areas than the fire marshal will allow. If you plan based at least on that, at least each person has a phone and maybe they have a tablet depending on the usage. But I did notice, could we stop by when they were busy? There's a lot of kids there that have tablets. That seems to be quite a thing and they want to watch Netflix. The guest network was something that the customers really wanted and this is something the bowling alley contracted us to provide. So once we kind of had an idea that they have a lot of people there, we went to work on the on the building out the network. And what we went with was, and this is actually a little post here, there's about 700 people that get on there to when they're busy. So it's about 700 people on network. They told us and we planned in capacity wise for even more than that. But it seems to be about 700 people on there on some of the bigger times when they have a lot of people coming in. The devices we chose to use, mostly in all the big areas, we went to Unify APHDs. Those HDs, and I'll actually pull this up in this area here. We use, for example, this is like the middle of the building and we have right where it's a snack bar. You can see where we installed one of the Unify APHDs. This has no problem covering this entire area. So because it's a very open area, there's not anything blocking it. So the Wi-Fi saturates really well. And the snack bar one, we'll show you here. Where's that snack bar? 244 guests on there, no problems at all. And this was just the other day. So they had an event, so I figured it's a good time to talk about this job because you can get an idea of just how many people at once are on there. So we have 215 there, 244, 206, 121. And over at this place here, we have, what, 76 at the arena bar. So that kind of builds out the density. That kind of builds out the density. Now for the smaller rooms or like the party rooms, they call it the continental room, the Cosmic Party Room, those don't even have a capacity over 100 people that you could get into those rooms. Some of them only can fit about 40 people. So we just went with the standard Unify APCLRs for there. So guest networks built out on there, we know that they're solid. Now, some of these were recently started in case you're wondering because we just pushed them firmware updates. So there's not a total data on the ones that we just pushed new firmware updates to. The data total is a little bit off also because reset our controller for anyone wondering. We just upgraded to the 19 version and I didn't bother keeping all the stats, not too worried about them. So I have a few stats from a few days ago, but we don't keep a lot of high density stats. That's a whole topic for a different discussion. But the point is that these systems are working wonderful. And as far as planning goes, putting these little LRs in all those small rooms as opposed to hoping when they go on the bar. And let me kind of give you an idea. I'm talking about right here is that bar area. You're looking out through a wall and there's a wall here. And then it goes around this bar kind of wraps around where some of the pool tables are. Well, there is a series of walls in between. And maybe there is some range to reach the upper ceiling because there's a big transition from this ceiling to that ceiling. So there's a big density. There's actually another series of offices that are above this in that gap. So you have a lot of things blocking the Wi-Fi. This is why we opted to go with a series of ACLRs in the bar area. So there's not any connection issues. And this is something that a heat map may not have told you. So you wouldn't be able to see because you're dealing with elevation changes as well as walls and things like that in there. So that's one of the reasons with Unify. Our plan is always to go with more Wi-Fi and put more less expensive devices in these areas that you know you're not going to have a ton of users. But you still want to make sure they have good connectivity in each of these. At least it's hard to get the perspective for the transition change. But you can tell there's how tall the ceiling is versus how tall the ceiling is in a bar. Then over here, this is another, the ceilings are interesting because the way they put some of the lights in and same with some of these facades and things like that. So that's where all that we kind of peppered around. I guess you could say all these different APC LRs are smaller, they're real cost. But once they have all that in, they have excellent coverage in all these party rooms. Now, this gives you an idea of some of the bandwidth and some of the things they're being used for. And I also talked about the firewall. And we're going to break it down to system states. And then we're going to go system processor update. And this is over the last three months. What I wanted to highlight here is yes, this is a 500 meg circuit and this happens to be an SG-3100 running it. They're not running intrusion detection, not part of scope of work, not something they're interested in at all. They do not want to filter or monitor any of those users. The only thing we really have set up in this starts at the Unify side, we did set up guest rules. So there's full guest isolation. The guest network is very large in terms of scope, but we did set it up. So each guest up and down only gets two meg. This kind of limits just how much bandwidth they can pull and leaves bandwidth for everything else. So you do have some traffic shaping going on and the SG-3100 can handle it. But because it doesn't do any type of deep packet inspection, the SG-3100 still works for this particular use case. Now firewalls, one of the things that people don't always get is that you really want to look at their ability to handle states. So when a system has a connection for each IP address, each device that connects, there's going to be assigned an IP address, but that system's going to reach out and make a lot of different connections. You know, people have 20 tabs open in their browsers, people have a lot of applications on their phones. Those applications, each connection they have outbound is another state and one website may have a few states or quite a few states because of all the different servers it connects to. So the firewall has to keep track of all those state tables and that's one of the reasons I brought up. So here is when they had, you know, high users a few days ago, they had an event and you have all these users, you know, about 6, 700 users on there and here's what was going on with the firewall. So in terms of how many states was that? About 4,000 states, not 4,000 IP addresses, but 4,000 states. So IP addresses and every connection that those IP addresses made. But what did that do to the SG3100 and can it handle that capacity? Yeah, you look at the filter states, let's actually pull up here system and we're looking at the processor for the same time here and people just change this one to make it a little cleaner. Change this to none, change just the processor. So you can see this 4,000 states right here. Update, never breaks idle. So here's the average 0.5, 0.5, 133 processes peaks. It just barely moves a little bit right here when they had that peak time. But that's one of my points that the SG3100 can it handle it? Absolutely. It's not a problem for it to be able to handle that much traffic, that much packets and we'll actually switch it to packets here. So here's some of those peaks and like I said those over 4,000 state tables when it peaked right there. But when you look at the processor, which is this green line here, you can see it can handle that perfectly fine. This question comes up a lot of what or not I need to build some incredibly high-end PF sense box to be able to handle 400, 500, 600 connections, 600 people on a wireless network. It is long as you're not having a need to run all the IDS intrusion detection and everything else, you're good. It will handle that many connections. That's part of the other reason I wanted to make this video was to talk about what we're doing to planning. Can you use that firewall for it? Absolutely. It works great. It's not even breaking a sweat. But if you have a need to do IDS intrusion detection in the full gamut of DPI and it logging, well then you're going to need something a little bit heavier. Those are the tools that take up more. Just managing this many connections and passing traffic and doing the filtering, that actually is handled really well here. So hopefully it's offered you a little insight into some of the jobs and some of the planning that went into it. It's really more hands-on. It's not magic where you can just say, oh, I just plug this software and I draw the building and it just knows. You can't tell what's in the walls, especially of a building that was built several times and remodeled several times. That can be challenging. So bringing the Wi-Fi out helps that a lot. And when it comes to the capacity, as long as, depending on the use case, as long as they don't really have a need for things like full deep packet inspection and filtering, mostly they go, hey, we want to guest network to support a lot of users. You don't need the fastest, biggest firewall to be able to do this when it comes to PF, since you can do this, for example, with an SG-3100. And like I said, this is a symmetrical 500x500 fiber connection that they have here. And the project's going really well. The customer's really happy. And that's what this follow-up is. Three months after we installed it, this is what it looks like. All right, thanks. Thanks for watching this video. And I'll see you in the next video. Thanks for watching this video. And I'll see you in the next video. Bye. See you next time.