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Rio Olympics: 'It’ll be a widely connected games'

Aptilo Networks is working with operators in Brazil to enable Wi-Fi for the Rio Olympics. In a video interview with RCR Wireless News, COO Jonas Jacobsson gave details on the company’s projects in stadiums, at hot spots across Brazil, airports and more.
The company said it is providing solutions to mobile carriers TIM and Oi, as well as internet service provider Linktel.
“TIM and Oi have implemented Aptilo solutions to manage their Wi-Fi subscribers and their networks; and a mechanism to authenticate subscribers automatically, so they can offload data from their macro network to their Wi-Fi network,” he said.
Jacobsson also explained that to attend to a lot of simultaneous users in one location carriers need to have an enough capacity to be able to manage all the Wi-Fi accesses and handle all the sessions. “It’s very import to do the capacity planning,” he noted, during the video interview.

Two years ago, for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, the company worked with TIM, Oi and Linktel providing them mobile data offloading solutions to enable Wi-Fi offloading and carrier Wi-Fi throughout the country and in Maracanã Stadium. For the soccer competition, TIM and Oi tapped the service management platform to provide a carrier Wi-Fi service with mobile data offloading; and Linktel tapped Aptilo SMP to enable and manage mobile data services across its network of Wi-Fi hot spots.
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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series focused on the technology deployments that support the Rio Olympics.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.