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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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UPDATE: WrestleMania 32 sets new Wi-Fi mark at AT&T Stadium; total Wi-Fi + DAS hits 8.6 TB
UPDATE: Fixes an MSR calculation error on DAS figures. The 101,763 fans who filled AT&T Stadium Sunday for WrestleMania 32 set new stadium records for Wi-Fi, according to figures provided by AT&T Stadium and AT&T, with 6.77 terabytes of Wi-Fi traffic and an additional 1.9 TB on the AT&T network on the stadium's DAS for a total wireless figure of 8.6 TB. The Wi-Fi numbers put Sunday's Read More>>
Twitter to stream NFL Thursday night games to all platforms, including smartphones
The big news from the NFL today was a deal signed with Twitter, under which Twitter will get to stream live NFL Thursday Night games online to any connected device, including smartphones. To us, that last bit is the most interesting part of the deal since it breaks the previous stronghold held by Verizon Wireless and its NFL Mobile deal, under which Verizon was previously the sole provider of live Read More>>
Wi-Fi consolidation continues: Brocade buys Ruckus for $1.2 B
Following last year's $3 billion purchase of Aruba Networks by Hewlett Packard, the Wi-Fi gear industry consolidation continued today with the announcement of Brocade buying Ruckus Wireless for $1.2 billion. For the stadium-networking industry, the news may mean that Ruckus gear may find its way into more potential deals, thanks to the deeper pockets and integration possibilities brought to the Read More>>
Minnesota Vikings pick VenueNext for U.S. Bank Stadium app
Stadium app developer VenueNext has scored another NFL client, as the Minnesota Vikings announced today that they would use VenueNext technology in the app for the yet-to-open U.S. Bank Stadium. According to VenueNext and the Vikings, the U.S. Bank Stadium app will support many of the same unique game-day features found in the app VenueNext built for the San Francisco 49ers' Levi's Stadium, Read More>>
Entry issues snarl start of WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium; crowd uses 6.77 TB of Wi-Fi
While Sunday's WrestleMania 32 eventually ended up with a record attendance for the WWE's signature event with 101,763 fans in attendance, some snafus with the entry process had fans reporting as long as three-hour waits to get in, with some pegging a Wi-Fi outage that disabled ticket scanners as one of the roots of the problem. Here's what it looked liked for fans trying to get into Read More>>
AT&T: Fans used 2.28 TB of cellular data during Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games
As the march toward the Final Four continued, fans at the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 venues for the men's NCAA basketball tournament used a combined 2.28 terabytes of data on the AT&T networks in those venues, according to AT&T. The highest weekend total came from games at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, where 680 GB were used, according to AT&T. Combined with the 3.6 TB of data AT&T said was Read More>>
Masters online will show full rounds for featured groups; tourney also adds 4K TV and virtual reality options
One of the best online sports viewing experiences, the Masters, will add a little more depth to its coverage this year, offering full-round coverage of selected "featured groups" of players. In previous years, the Masters only showed featured groups from the 10th hole on. Otherwise, the superb Masters Live online package -- which is available for free at both Masters.com and CBSSports.com -- Read More>>
Betting the Under (Part 2): Putting Wi-Fi antennas under seats is the hot new trend in stadium wireless networks
Part 2 of this story picks up with the decision to put Wi-Fi APs under seats at Levi's Stadium. If you missed it, here is the link to Part 1. According to Chuck Lukaszewski, now vice president of wireless strategy and standards at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly very high density architect in the CTO Office of Aruba Networks), Aruba had been testing under-seat AP designs since around 2010, Read More>>
