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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NFL teams’ IT staffs emerging as key players in virtual draft
As sports fans we're used to hearing quotes from general managers like John Elway touting the skills of players on their teams, but when's the last time you heard a GM go out of his way to praise the IT department? Elway, like several other NFL GMs who have been publicly appreciative of their IT departments, was quoted calling his team's IT department "heroes" for their work during the Read More>>
Super Bowl LIV recap: Big jump in per-device usage fuels record Wi-Fi mark
The big game is back on top of the unofficial Mobile Sports Report single-day Wi-Fi rankings, with a mark of 26.42 terabytes of data used at Super Bowl LIV in Miami, according to figures reported by Extreme Networks. What’s most interesting (to us) about the number is that it was generated in a venue that had approximately 8,000 fewer fans in attendance than last year’s Super Bowl (70,081 in Read More>>
Friday links: More Wi-Fi spectrum, Apple SE has Wi-Fi 6 and CBRS
If you need some pointers on things to catch up on this weekend here are some links to recent news that will likely have future impact on the stadium technology world, including new Wi-Fi spectrum, Apple's support for Wi-Fi 6 and CBRS in its new phone, and Apple and Google working together on contact tracing. FCC ready to clear 6 GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi This surfaced a couple weeks ago Read More>>
MSR Behind the profiles: 2019 Final Four, part 2
Over the course of the last year, I've had several requests from readers to shed more light on what goes on "behind the scenes" on my various stadium visits. Here's the first in a planned series I'm calling "Behind the profiles," giving you some flavor of the fun and interesting things and people I experience on my trips to check out stadium technology deployments. In honor of the basketball Read More>>
MSR Behind the profiles: 2019 Final Four, part 1
Over the course of the last year, I've had several requests from readers to shed more light on what goes on "behind the scenes" on my various stadium visits. Here's the first in a planned series I'm calling "Behind the profiles," giving you some flavor of the fun and interesting things and people I experience on my trips to check out stadium technology deployments. In honor of the basketball Read More>>
JMA invents emergency ventilation system for Covid-19 treatments
JMA, a company best known in the stadium-wireless industry for its telecommunications gear, has led a joint effort to build an "emergency" ventilation system for Covid-19 patient treatment, using existing medical equipment that is then married to "a unique mechanical apparatus" that can help keep patients breathing until they can be transferred to more robust ventilator. JMA's initiative to Read More>>
Remote worker support at forefront for venue IT during coronavirus shutdowns
With almost all work now being done remotely, it's no surprise that team and venue IT staffs have virtual operations support at the forefront as the coronavirus shuts down most business operations. In emails and calls to a small group of venue, team and school IT leaders the task of making sure that staffs could work online in a virtual fashion was the one common response from every person who Read More>>
DIY method brings Wi-Fi to Rutgers basketball arena
It was a bit more complicated than a trip to Home Depot, but when the Rutgers University IT team wanted to bring fan-facing Wi-Fi to the school’s basketball arena but didn’t have the budget for a big-name contractor or vendor deal, it did what many weekend warriors do when faced with the same build vs. buy decision: They did it themselves. By purchasing lower-cost Wi-Fi gear and doing almost Read More>>
