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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MSR at the College Football Playoff Championships: Send us your speedtests!
As Twitter followers found out yesterday, MSR is in "north Texas," aka the Dallas-Fort Worth "Metroplex," attending tonight's inaugural College Football Playoff Championship game at AT&T Stadium. We're here to see a test of AT&T's LTE broadcast technology, which will ostensibly make it easier for venues to deliver live video streams via a cellular connection. But we also are going to take Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Network finishes season strong at Niners’ Levi’s Stadium
While the football season didn't turn out like 49ers fans wanted, the wireless network at the team's new Levi's Stadium closed out the year with strong performances to complete a largely glitch-free stretch of events at what is one of the world's most technologically advanced stadiums. With more than 2 Terabytes of data used by fans at each of the last two home games for the San Francisco Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: How VenueNext generates replays for Levi’s Stadium app
During the final home game for the San Francisco 49ers this season, I was somewhat amazed to see a replay appear on the Levi's Stadium app even before the next play had concluded. Clearly, the VenueNext team behind the app had progressed significantly from the early season, when the app's replay function struggled somewhat. During the Dec. 28 game against the Arizona Cardinals, the VenueNext Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Corning, IBM bringing fiber-based Wi-Fi and DAS to Texas A&M’s Kyle Field
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from our recent Stadium Tech Report series COLLEGE FOOTBALL ISSUE, a 40-page in-depth look at Wi-Fi and DAS deployment trends at U.S. collegiate football stadiums. You can download the full report for free, to get more stadium profiles as well as school-by-school technology deployment capsules for both the SEC and Pac-12 conferences. When Texas A&M’s Read More>>
All NFL playoff games available online; Verizon only for smartphone watching
We've come a long way from the days when it was a struggle to even find NFL live action online. This season, all NFL playoff games, including the Super Bowl, will be available for online viewing, via a desktop computer, laptop or tablet, no matter which network is carrying the games. The league has even created a handy single web page to find instant access to the live streams, no small matter Read More>>
Report excerpt: SEC moving slowly on stadium Wi-Fi deployments
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from our recent Stadium Tech Report series COLLEGE FOOTBALL ISSUE, a 40-page in-depth look at Wi-Fi and DAS deployment trends at U.S. collegiate football stadiums. You can download the full report for free, to get more stadium profiles as well as school-by-school technology deployment capsules for both the SEC and Pac-12 conferences. When it comes to Read More>>
Washington dropping Huawei for Cisco/Verizon Wi-Fi at FedEx Field, report says
According to a report from Bill Gertz at the Washington Times, the Washington, D.C. NFL franchise is apparently scrapping a recent deal with Chinese networking gear supplier Huawei to put fan-facing Wi-Fi into FedEx Field, turning instead to U.S. companies Cisco and Verizon. Gertz, in the "Inside the Ring" column at the Times, said the Washington team's senior vice president Tony Wyllie said in Read More>>
Niners add in-seat merchandise delivery, transit info to Levi’s Stadium app
As previously reported by Mobile Sports Report, the San Francisco 49ers have added in-seat merchandise ordering and public transportation information to the Levi's Stadium app, ahead of Saturday night's game between the Niners and the San Diego Chargers. While the new features were hinted at during a recent technology summit at the stadium, application developer VenueNext made the upgrades Read More>>
