Best of 2025: HPE Network Bring Smart City To Life At Ryder Cup
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
As the Ryder Cup golf tournament gets underway today, a sprawling network spanning roughly 1,500 acres was rolled out in 12 weeks to bring to life the equivalent of a small smart city that will be put to the ultimate test.
Approximately a quarter of a million golf fans are expected to descend on the Bethpage Black golf course in Farmingdale, New York, to watch golf legends from the U.S. and Europe compete to take home the prestigious Ryder Cup. Some 70,000 to 80,000 of those fans are expected to be at any given time simultaneously accessing internet services over a network built by Safari Systems, a systems integrator, using networking equipment supplied by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) that, in addition to providing access to WiFi networks, is also being relied on to backhaul cellular network.