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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Time for The Masters — the best digital experience in sports
There's no small bit of irony in the fact that The Masters, one of the few places left on earth where you absolutely cannot carry a working cell phone, offers perhaps the best digital experience in all of sports. I'm biased, because I like golf and like the tradition and history of the Masters competition, but I would challenge you to find another event, team or league that offers the breadth and Read More>>
AT&T: Final Four sees 1.52 terabytes of DAS traffic, almost double last year’s total
Sometimes we feel like a broken record when talking about data usage at big events -- is the total ever going to stop growing? Not at the Final Four, apparently, where this year AT&T saw almost double the traffic on its in-stadium DAS, even at a smaller venue, the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. According to AT&T, its customers used a total of 1.52 terabytes of data on the in-stadium DAS at Read More>>
March Madness online resets the record books with 17.8 million hours of live viewing
Turner Sports and the NCAA said that online viewing of the 2015 men's NCAA basketball tournament once again set new records, showing (again) that the demand for live sports online is still growing steadily with no top in sight. From the round of 64 to One Shining Moment this year's March Madness Live audience racked up 17.8 million hours of online viewing, according to figures released by Read More>>
Fans are using Periscope and Meerkat to stream Opening Day baseball action — how will MLB respond?
The question we asked about how the use of livestreaming apps like Meerkat and Periscope might affect stadium networks is getting some real-world trials today, as fans are clearly using the apps to show live video from the various opening day games for Major League Baseball. So far, we've seen reports that fans are using the apps from the New York Yankees' home opener agains the Toronto Blue Jays, Read More>>
Avaya Stadium fans used 256 GB of Wi-Fi during Earthquakes’ MLS home opener
Fans at the San Jose Earthquakes' MLS home opener at the brand-new Avaya Stadium used 256 gigabytes of data on the venue's Wi-Fi network, according to statistics provided by Avaya, which also runs the wireless network in its new namesake stadium. With a sellout crowd of 18,000 on hand to jam the new stadium, almost 25 percent of the attendees logged on to the Wi-Fi network, with a total of Read More>>
Will Periscope and Meerkat swamp stadium networks?
Three thoughts to start your week off, of a completely unrelated nature. First one up is about a couple of live video-streaming services that you might have heard of or seen, Meerkat and Periscope. I successfully avoided watching any super-selfimportant types video themselves using Meerkat from SXSW, and I've been too wrapped up in March Madness to care yet about Periscope. So far I haven't seen Read More>>
Analysis: NBA, NHL teams getting into Wi-Fi without single league-wide strategy
So who needs a league-wide stadium networking strategy, anyway? Neither the NBA nor the NHL has such a beast, but it doesn’t seem to be stopping the deployment of fan-facing Wi-Fi services that now reach almost every NBA arena and almost two-thirds of NHL venues. The two biggest leagues for professional indoor sports in the U.S. may share a lack of a single, public league-wide networking Read More>>
Nationwide Arena tops 1.3 Terabytes in weekend wireless traffic for NCAA games
Like big events in other sports, the opening rounds of the popular NCAA men's basketball tournament are producing lots of wireless data use by fans at the games, with one venue -- Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio -- recording more than 1.3 terabytes of combined Wi-Fi and DAS traffic during its two days of competition. With second- and third-round games on Friday, March 22 and Sunday, March Read More>>
