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Lake Forest highlights Deerpath Park technology: fiber backbone, public Wi‑Fi and live sports streams
Summary
City staff demonstrated the new technology at Deerpath Community Park — a fiber backbone and public Wi‑Fi, information boards, automated sports cameras with livestreaming at watchlfsports.com, and security cameras that retain 30 days of footage.
Jim Shaw, the city’s director of innovation and technology, presented a high‑level overview of the technology installed at the new Deerpath Community Park during the Lake Forest City Council meeting on May 6.
Shaw said the park has a fiber backbone connected to the city and recreation networks and the internet, and a Wi‑Fi system rated to support up to 800 concurrent users at 1 gigabit. "It's free of charge. Anyone can use it," Shaw said, describing a guest login labeled "l f guest." He told council the network supports both internal systems and resident access.
Shaw described on‑site digital information boards at the north…
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