How Secure Is All That Wireless Equipment at the Super Bowl?
The NFL has a roster of radio frequency experts to manage the 10,000 wireless devices and Wi-Fi networks at the big game in Arizona. But no wireless technology is 100 percent safe.
To Stern, the most likely scenario and biggest risk for the NFL is an "innocent error of interference"—a denial of service incident where someone, with a device that has a large output and wattage, will wash out someone else's transmission. Which is exactly why the NFL has 45 people working on it, he says.
"I'm sure they'll be some interference," Stern says, but he doesn't think it will have a material impact on the game and the millions of dollars at stake. "From a Vegas perspective," he says, "they'll get an un-interfered game."
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