by Jon Brodkin Feb 6 2013 Ars Technica
When the lights went off at the Super Bowl during the big game's infamous power outage, not everything went offline.
The stadium-wide Wi-Fi network kept working-or at least it did in some areas and for part of the outage. But it was a very old-school technology-a landline phone-that saved the day for Andrew Stern, a broadcast engineer for a San Francisco radio station.
After coming home from New Orleans, Stern gave me a rundown on how the Super Bowl's technology held up. Was the Wi-Fi network as good as promised? Answer: yes. Did the 35-minute power outage cause problems? Answer: yes-but Stern and team found a way to manage.
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