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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AmpThink’s Wi-Fi data reveals interesting attendance trends for collegiate customer
If there's a single business concern we hear over and over again from stadium owners and operators, it's the desire to answer a simple but powerful question: Who, exactly, is sitting in our seats? Before digital technology arrived, that question was exceedingly hard to answer, as teams, schools and other ticket-sellers often only knew details of a small percentage of the actual fans in Read More>>
AT&T Stadium sees 7.25 TB of Wi-Fi for Packers vs. Cowboys playoff game
Pro football's biggest stadium had the biggest non-Super Bowl Wi-Fi traffic day we've heard of this season, as the Dallas Cowboys reported seeing 7.25 terabytes of Wi-Fi data on the AT&T Stadium network during the Packers' thrilling 34-31 victory on Jan. 15. John Winborn, chief information officer for the Dallas Cowboys, sent us the info on the stadium's biggest Wi-Fi day ever, surpassing the Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Wi-Fi works well at Golden State Warriors’ Oracle Arena
After a year in which the team almost saw its stadium networking lease put up for public auction, the Golden State Warriors seem to have rebounded on the wireless-access front, with an updated network that should hold the Wi-Fi fort until the team moves into its new arena in San Francisco. Though the team has repeatedly refused to provide any in-depth details on the state of Wi-Fi at Oakland's Read More>>
Super Bowl LI Wi-Fi sees drop in average per-fan use total
While Super Bowl LI in Houston set records for most total Wi-Fi used in a single day event, the actual amount of average Wi-Fi data used per connected fan actually dropped from the previous year's game, from about 370 megabytes per user at Super Bowl 50 to about 333 MB per user for Super Bowl 51. Using official totals provided by the NFL's official analytics provider, Extreme Networks, there Read More>>
Arizona State upgrades DAS, Wi-Fi at Sun Devil Stadium
When Arizona State University started renovating Sun Devil Stadium three years ago, the project wasn't so much a simple wireless refresh as it was a total reset of what technology, sports and academia could co-create. In addition to expanded Wi-Fi and DAS for the stadium (a venue that includes classrooms, meeting rooms and retail outlets), ASU activated a virtual beacon trial. The university Read More>>
Update: Super Bowl LI breaks 37 TB wireless mark
It's official now, and without any doubt Super Bowl LI broke the single-day wireless data use mark, with at least 37.6 terabytes used. The official stats for Wi-Fi at NRG Stadium are finally in, with a mark of 11.8 TB, which is a bit more than the 10.1 TB recorded at last year's Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium, the previous top mark. The official stats were reported Thursday by Wi-Fi gear Read More>>
Verizon goes under concrete to bolster NRG Stadium DAS for Super Bowl LI
In a slight twist from its strategy for last year's Super Bowl, Verizon Wireless has installed DAS antennas underneath the concrete flooring of lower-tier seats at Houston's NRG Stadium, to provide extra bandwidth for the expected high wireless data usage at Super Bowl LI. Last year at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Verizon beefed up its distributed antenna system (DAS) with under-seat Read More>>
NFL builds its own Super Bowl app, with no concessions delivery and fewer replays
The NFL has built its own Super Bowl mobile app, breaking with a recent history of using stadium-app specialists like VenueNext and YinzCam to develop specific apps for Super Sunday. Also unlike recent years, the NFL's Super Bowl app will not feature instant replays or have any kind of food or drink delivery services. Instead, there appears to be a big focus on promoting Super Bowl events Read More>>
