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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Grateful Dead fans use 4.5 TB of Wi-Fi during Levi’s Stadium shows
Fans at the two Grateful Dead concerts at Levi's Stadium last weekend used a total of 4.5 terabytes of data on the stadium's Wi-Fi network, not near a record total but about the same each night as a regular NFL crowd Wi-Fi total from the past season, Niners officials said. Roger Hacker, the 49ers' senior manager for corporate communications, said the fans attending the "Fare thee Well" concerts Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Kauffman Stadium gets a Royal Wi-Fi Upgrade
In addition to being good at baseball last fall, the Kansas City Royals were a little bit lucky, too – especially when their park’s new Wi-Fi network got installed just before the Royals began their historic postseason run. While no team knows for sure if it can plan ahead for postseason play, the fact that Major League Baseball was able to complete its install of a Wi-Fi network at Kauffman Read More>>
MLB Stadium Tech Reports — NL West
Editor's note: The following team-by-team capsule reports of MLB stadium technology deployments are an excerpt from our most recent Stadium Tech Report, THE BASEBALL (And Soccer!) 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. NL West Reporting by Paul Kapustka San Francisco Read More>>
Deadheads will have in-seat food delivery option at Levi’s Stadium Grateful Dead concerts
When the Grateful Dead's farewell tour hits Levi's Stadium this weekend, concertgoers will be able to order food delivery to their seats, according to Levi's Stadium app developer VenueNext. The in-seat food delivery option, which debuted during San Francisco 49er home games last season, is one of the more unique attributes of Levi's Stadium and its accompanying smartphone app. For events like Read More>>
Twitter, Live Nation and Aruba are investors in $9 million Series A round for Levi’s Stadium app developer VenueNext
Almost as interesting as today's news of a $9 million Series A venture round for Levi's Stadium app developer VenueNext is the list of participants in this round of funding, which includes Twitter Ventures, Live Nation Entertainment and Aruba Networks, among others. While there's also an interesting story to be mined about lead investor Causeway Media Partners, whose managing partner Mark Wan Read More>>
AT&T: Hawks, Warriors fans are tops when it comes to DAS data use during championship series
Though we didn't get a game-by-game breakdown, according to our friends at AT&T the fans for the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks and the NBA Finals Champion Golden State Warriors are also the respective "winners" in their sports for having finals-series games with the most DAS data use. In a blog post outlining some stats for data usage on AT&T networks on distributed antenna systems Read More>>
Report excerpt: MLB’s Wi-Fi everywhere plan nears completion
By the end of the season, Major League Baseball’s $300 million plan to bring Wi-Fi and DAS to every ballpark should be mostly complete, cementing the league’s title as the best-connected sport for now, and most likely for the near-term future as well. While other sports, leagues and conferences rely on individual teams, schools and stadiums to figure out their own budgetary paths to Read More>>
Ruckus Wireless scores Wi-Fi deployment deal at UK soccer stadium
Ruckus Wireless scored a Wi-Fi gear deployment deal at the 35,000-seat American Express Community Stadium in Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, England (UK), as part of a new fan-facing network being deployed by service provider The Cloud. According to Ruckus, it has supplied approximately 100 access points that were deployed on the roof structures at "The AMEX" to bring Wi-Fi connectivity to the Read More>>
