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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Stadium Tech Report: Average connectivity doesn’t seem to hurt Avaya Stadium experience
From a strictly wireless perspective, the opening-day performance of the Avaya Stadium Wi-Fi network was good in some spots and very poor in others, leading to an overall grade of average at best. But the Wi-Fi issues didn't seem to take anything away from the smashing debut of a facility purpose-built for soccer and well-designed for an easy, fun fan experience, even with a sellout crowd of Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Wireless connectivity brings fans and business benefits to the Palace at Auburn Hills
Not too long ago, a marketing executive who was new to the Detroit Pistons' ownership team tried to post a tweet during a game at the Palace of Auburn Hills. But to get the message to send, he had to ... step outside the building. Fast forward a few years, and the situation is completely reversed. Not only is there a storm of wireless connectivity inside the Palace, that same Wi-Fi and cellular Read More>>
NCAA Tournament Wi-Fi and DAS: Send us your stats!
Given that the games are numerous and spread out far and wide, it's our guess that wireless-data consumption totals from the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament regional sites are not quite approaching the "big game" numbers of say, a Super Bowl or the recent College Football Playoff championship game. Still, there are probably some interesting peaks and totals so as an open request to all involved, Read More>>
Braves sign Comcast for network deal at new SunTrust Park
The Atlanta Braves and Comcast announced a deal that will see the cable giant providing back-end networking bandwidth to the team's new SunTrust Park in Atlanta, along with an associated campus of buildings that includes a Comcast-branded structure that will peek over the right-field wall. Like other deals it has signed at stadiums like the San Francisco 49ers' Levi's Stadium, the Tennessee Read More>>
Levi’s Stadium won’t have in-seat food delivery for Wrestlemania 31
When WWE fans invade Levi's Stadium on March 29 for Wrestlemania 31, they will have to wrestle their own way to the concession stands for food and drink, because the in-seat food delivery feature of the Levi's Stadium app won't be available for that event, according to stadium app officials. Louise Callagy, vice president of marketing for Levi's Stadium app developer VenueNext, said Monday that Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Blazing a Trail to Connectivity at Portland’s Moda Center
When it comes time to build a stadium network there are two obvious choices of how to get it done: You let someone else build and run it, or do it yourself. When neither of these options appealed to the Portland Trail Blazers and their planned networking upgrade at the Moda Center, they went with a third option: Using a neutral host provider for both DAS and Wi-Fi. After turning to neutral Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Indian Wells Tennis Garden serves up an ace with Ruckus Wi-Fi for BNP Paribas Open
In tennis, a player gets two chances to serve the ball in. Mark McComas, lead project manager for the public Wi-Fi installation at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in southern California, knew he'd have just one shot to get it all to work properly. McComas, VP for systems integrator West Coast Networking of Palm Desert, Calif., began working on a wireless system to handle IWTG's administrative Read More>>
Avaya boots Ruckus from San Jose Earthquakes’ new stadium Wi-Fi deal
While it hasn't been announced publicly, the year-ago agreement to have Ruckus Wireless provide the Wi-Fi gear at the new San Jose Earthquakes stadium got the boot when networking gear and services provider Avaya stepped up with a $20 million naming-rights deal that also apparently includes using Avaya equipment, not Ruckus, for the in-house wireless network. Since we haven't yet been to the Read More>>
