In a high-density stadium deployment, which two design considerations are most important?

High-gain omni antennas increase RF propagation in all directions, worsening co-channel interference in dense environments, and 2.4 GHz offers too few non-overlapping channels for high-density use.

50% overlap is a general coverage design metric and reducing AP count would lower total capacity, which is the opposite of what high-density deployments require.

Sectorized directional antennas limit each AP's coverage to a defined sector, reducing co-channel interference and allowing the same channels to be reused across adjacent sectors. Channel reuse planning ensures that overlapping cells operate on non-interfering or adequately separated channels, maximizing spatial reuse and aggregate throughput. Together these two techniques are the foundation of any high-density RF design.

A single AP at maximum transmit power cannot serve thousands of clients and high transmit power increases interference range, degrading nearby cells.