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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University of Phoenix Stadium sees another 2 TB Wi-Fi game with big events on the horizon
Call it maybe a warm-up before the storm hits? The University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, racked up another 2 terabyte Wi-Fi traffic event during a recent Thursday night game, but bigger wireless days are no doubt on the near horizon. With playoff-consideration regular season home games coming up against the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks, the beefed-up Wi-Fi Read More>>
Comcast to provide back-end bandwidth for Kings’ Golden 1 Center
The Sacramento Kings have signed Comcast to a deal to provide the back-end Internet bandwidth for the Golden 1 Center, the new basketball arena that is scheduled to open in time for the 2016-17 season. In a deal that sounds similar to the one Comcast signed with the San Francisco 49ers to provide service to Levi's Stadium, Comcast Business will provide the Sacramento stadium with bandwidth to Read More>>
Nebraska’s 2015 season Wi-Fi stats: Two 4+ TB games, 3.4 TB average
The high-density Wi-Fi network at the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium saw a lot of action during the 2015 football season, racking up an average of 3.4 terabytes per game with two games going past the 4 TB mark. According to figures provided to us by Chad Chisea, IT operations manager for Nebraska athletics, an early season game against South Alabama carded 4.2 TB and a Nov. 7 matchup Read More>>
Last-minute audible to optical made Texas A&M’s stadium network a winner
The original game plan for the new wireless networks at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field called for copper, not optical fiber, at the network core. Then came a last-minute audible that changed the game not just for the Aggies but maybe for stadium networks overall. After initially designing the network with a traditional copper wiring system, a late spring 2014 decision by Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp Read More>>
New Report: Is Texas A&M’s $20 million, all-optical DAS and Wi-Fi the fastest stadium network out there?
Is there a combined stadium Wi-Fi and DAS deployment that is as fast as the one found at Texas A&M's Kyle Field? If so we haven't seen or heard of it. In fact, after reviewing loads of live network-performance data of Kyle Field’s new Wi-Fi and DAS in action, and after maxing out the top levels on our speed tests time after time during an informal walk-around on a game day, we’ve come to the Read More>>
AmpThink, Aruba win Wi-Fi deal for Carolina Panthers’ Bank of America Stadium
Details are still yet to emerge, but AmpThink and Aruba have officially won the deal to put a new 1,200-AP Wi-Fi network in the Carolina Panthers' Bank of America Stadium for next football season. Of course, the undefeated Panthers still have a lot left going on this season, and fans at home games will still be able to use the AT&T Wi-Fi network that has been in the stadium for several years. Read More>>
NFL Stadium Tech Reviews — NFC South
Editor's note: The following team-by-team capsule reports of NFL stadium technology deployments are an excerpt from our most recent Stadium Tech Report, THE PRO FOOTBALL ISSUE. To get all the capsules in one place as well as our featured reports, interviews and analysis, download your free copy of the full report today. NFC SOUTH Reporting by Paul Kapustka New Orleans Read More>>
SF Giants fans used 78.2 TB of Wi-Fi data at AT&T Park during 2015 season
It didn't end with a World Series championship but the 2015 season for the San Francisco Giants did see fans use 78.2 terabytes of Wi-Fi data during home games at AT&T Park, the most-ever at the venue, according to the Giants. Bill Schlough, senior vice president and CIO for the Giants, sent over a bunch of wireless data statistics from the Giants' season, and on both Wi-Fi and AT&T DAS usage, Read More>>
