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When you think about getting ready to go to a football game, chances are that you don't automatically think to grab your customized laptop and bring it with you to the stadium. But if you're a fan of the San Francisco 49ers, you could if you wanted to. The football team, which made it all the way to the Super Bowl last season, is constructing a brand-new stadium complete with numerous state-of-the-art technologies. 

The stadium is going to have Wi-Fi, which isn't exactly new for public places like sports stadiums, but the network is being designed so that if all 68,000 football fans flooded the stadium at once, and decided to connect to the internet at the same time, they would be able to. Perhaps even more unbelievable is that the system doesn't plan to put any limit on uploads or downloads, meaning that the system has to be incredibly powerful for all these devices.

The fact that this feat of computer engineering of a stadium is being constructed in the heart of Silicon Valley is not a coincidence. Those who are overseeing the construction of the 49ers' new home got their start at one of the biggest tech companies in the Bay Area, Facebook. These two experts spent five years building the extremely efficient network that Facebook is based on. 

Similarly, the San Francisco Giants - reigning World Champions for baseball - were one of the first teams to adopt PassBook? ticketing for fans with iPhones. 

Since the engineers are designing the Wi-Fi network while the stadium is still being built, the layout of the system is important. They're building in hundreds of wireless access points around the stadium so that the stadium itself won't get in the way of bandwidth. 

Before you know it, you'll be able to take your iPad mini with you to the 49ers game, and access the whole internet while you're there. If you want to make sure that your device is up to the task, contact PortableOne today. 

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