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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AT&T sees double DAS usage at College Football Playoff championship game
Wireless data use at big sports events keeps continuing to grow, with AT&T reporting that its cellular network traffic from Monday's College Football Playoff championship game between Clemson and Alabama was double the total from last year's game. According to AT&T, it saw fans use a total of 3.8 terabytes of wireless data Monday, on its stadium distributed antenna system (DAS) network at Read More>>
NRG Stadium Wi-Fi ready for Super Bowl LI
Nonexistent a year ago, the new Wi-Fi network at Houston's NRG Stadium has at least one more live game that administrators can use as a final tune-up before the venue and its wireless infrastructure host Super Bowl LI on Feb. 5. Live since the start of the current NFL season, the Wi-Fi network deployed by integrator 5 Bars using Extreme Networks Wi-Fi gear has seen growth in fan usage for each Read More>>
Let your voice be heard: The MSR ‘Voices of the Industry’ feature open for submissions
Ever have something you wanted to share or an opinion you wanted to voice about the stadium technology marketplace but never thought there'd be a place for it to be seen or heard? That changes now with our introduction of the Mobile Sports Report "Voices of the Industry" feature, which is now open for submissions. Here's how it works: If you have an opinion, whether it be of a technical, Read More>>
Stadium POS system supplier Appetize gets $20 million in funding
Appetize, the company behind a new point-of-sale platform being used by such new stadiums as the Minnesota Vikings' U.S. Bank Stadium and the Sacramento Kings' Golden 1 Center, announced it had secured a $20 million funding round led by Shamrock Capital Advisors. Oak View Group, the new stadium/technology concern from Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff, also participated in the round, which Appetize Read More>>
AT&T beefs up DAS at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium ahead of College Football Playoff championship
With the college football playoff championship game coming to Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on Jan. 9, 2017, it's no surprise that wireless carriers like AT&T have been beefing up coverage in and around the venue ahead of what is historically one of the biggest wireless-use events in sports. According to our unofficial list, the last two college football playoff games rank fifth and sixth Read More>>
VenueNext adds fan-safety incident reporting feature to stadium app platform
Stadium app vendor VenueNext said it will add a fan-safety incident reporting feature to its base application platform, giving stadiums and other large public venues a way to allow fans to report game-day incidents using their mobile devices. By partnering with LiveSafe, a company with a suite of safety services based on the idea of "crowdsourced intelligence," VenueNext will add a fan-safety Read More>>
Will stadiums soon be able to rent their Wi-Fi networks from equipment vendors?
If it costs too much to buy a Wi-Fi network for your stadium, why not rent one instead? A fairly common option in the world of enterprise networking, the ability to rent, or lease a fully operational Wi-Fi network may soon be coming to the world of sports stadiums and other large public venues, if it isn't here already. Three of the largest Wi-Fi gear suppliers, Cisco, Aruba and Ruckus, already Read More>>
Washington upgrades Wi-Fi backbone at FedExField
Fans at FedExField now have more bandwidth to use on the stadium Wi-Fi network thanks to a recent upgrade that moved the backbone capacity to 10 gigabits per second, according to a release from the team. Though it's never been previously publicly announced by the Washington, D.C. NFL franchise, according to sources close to the team the reported network built by Verizon Wireless using Cisco Read More>>
