Extreme Networks Exec: Solution Providers Should Grab A Piece Of Hot Sports Market

What exactly is Extreme providing for Super Bowl 51 inside NRG Stadium?

For the Super Bowl, we have the total networking solution -- so it's the wired, wireless software and we're collecting the analytics. We're going to see everything that happens.

What people don’t understand [is that] for the Super Bowl there's a massive security perimeter … and that requires connectivity. So the security apparatus, the ticketing apparatus -- we provide that with the NFL. In addition to that, in and around Houston this year with Verizon, we're providing the Super Bowl live areas – whether it's the sponsorship areas or point-of-sale in the Super Bowl live area, that's all running on our connectivity with Verizon. … The hotel where the NFL headquarters is is running on our technology as well and that is a Zebra-acquired technology.

You're using technology from your recent acquisition of Zebra's WLAN portfolio in the Super Bowl?

Yes. So we have a combination of our existing technology and Zebra technology all in the various venues around the city.