As of the 2017 MLS season, the New York Red Bulls are the first professional sports team in North America to use Cisco Meraki, a new Wi-Fi solution from the San Francisco-based IT and technology company that included 150 access point throughout Red Bull Arena, parking lots and admission gates.
Shaun Oliver, Chief Operating Officer, explained that Cisco told the Red Bulls organization that it would be “trailblazers in the United States and North America as pioneers of this system.”
“With that, (Cisco) guaranteed us that whatever comes next, this system can handle, and you won’t have to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build on whatever the next Facebook, Instagram, social media craze is and also what the next iBeacon and push notification stuff that we use to generate revenue here,” added Oliver.