FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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Little Caesars Arena revs the engine on wireless
April 10, 2019 By Terry Sweeney Leave a Comment
Detroit has made an ambitious bet on the sports entertainment model with its 50-block District Detroit development – which embraces Ford Field (where the NFL’s Lions play), Comerica Park (MLB’s Tigers) and most recently, Little Caesars Arena (NBA’s Pistons and NHL’s Red Wings). In fact, Motor City might just as easily be renamed Stadium City as Detroit looks to professional sports as one Read More>>
Amalie Arena’s MatSing-powered DAS ready for Women’s Final Four
April 4, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
The new DAS at Amalie Arena in Tampa, which uses 52 MatSing ball antennas, is fully operational and ready for this weekend's NCAA Women's Final Four, which starts on Friday. According to AT&T, which is running and operating the new DAS, the new network "is officially on-air," after going through some test runs during Tampa Bay Lightning NHL games. According to one informer, AT&T CEO John Read More>>
Venue Display Report: Sharks bring ‘excitement’ to SAP Center concourses with new digital display technology from Daktronics and Cisco
April 2, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
If you're an ice hockey fan, you are no doubt somewhat addicted to the excitement of seeing games live, in person. Yet one historical drawback to going to games has always been fearing those moments when you need or want to leave your seat, when missing out on the unpredictable action makes waiting in lines excruciating. While many teams in all kinds of sports have been busy installing Read More>>
Super Bowl recap: 24 TB for Wi-Fi, 12 TB for DAS
March 29, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Super Bowl 53 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium rewrote the record book when it comes to single-day stadium Wi-Fi, with 24.05 terabytes of traffic seen on the stadium’s network. That is a huge leap from the official 16.31 TB seen at last year’s Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis at U.S. Bank Stadium. According to official statistics provided by Extreme Networks, new high-water marks were set last Read More>>
New Report: Record Wi-Fi at Super Bowl 53, and Wi-Fi and DAS for Colorado’s Folsom Field
March 20, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
MOBILE SPORTS REPORT is pleased to announce the Spring 2019 issue of our STADIUM TECH REPORT series, the ONLY in-depth publication created specifically for the stadium technology professional and the stadium technology marketplace. Our string of historical in-depth profiles of successful stadium technology deployments continues with reports from the record-setting Wi-Fi day at Super Bowl 53, a Read More>>
Venue Display Report: Samsung, RevelTV bring new displays to Utah Jazz and Vivint Smart Home Arena
March 14, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Vivint Smart Home Arena, one of the oldest NBA venues, now has one of the more advanced in-arena digital display systems, thanks to a recent deployment of 600-plus Samsung "system on a chip" screens, which don't require a separate digital media player to operate. Part of a recent remodel of the home of the Utah Jazz, the new display screens are mounted throughout the concourses, in club areas Read More>>
Raiders sign Cox Communications as Wi-Fi partner for Las Vegas Stadium
March 8, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Cox Communications signed on with the NFL's Raiders as a founding partner and "official Wi-Fi and Internet provider" for the under-construction Las Vegas Stadium, which is scheduled to open next summer. Though no details are available yet on whose gear Cox will use for the venue's Wi-Fi network or how many APs they will place in the 65,000-seat stadium, a press release did say that Cox would Read More>>
Introducing: The VENUE DISPLAY REPORT!
March 4, 2019 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Mobile Sports Report is pleased to announce our latest editorial endeavor, the VENUE DISPLAY REPORT! A new vertical-specific offering of MSR's existing STADIUM TECH REPORT series, the VENUE DISPLAY REPORT series will focus on telling the stories of successful venue display technology deployments and the business opportunities these deployments enable. No registration or email address required Read More>>