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: Upgrades keep San Francisco Giants and AT&T Park at front of stadium DAS and Wi-Fi league
What's it like when the best-connected park in Major League Baseball loses its cellular mojo for a month? This winter the San Francisco Giants found out how fun it isn't to revisit the days of "no signal," when a DAS upgrade meant about 30 days of little to no connectivity inside AT&T Park. "It was painful," said Bill Schlough, senior vice president and chief information officer for the Giants, Read More>>
Artemis Networks demos 20 iPads running HD video via one 5 MHz LTE channel
We won't be there to confirm it, but Artemis Networks is scheduled to demonstrate its latest trick today at the Code Conference, using its revolutionary pCell network gear to stream video simultaneously to 20 Apple iPads via a single 5 MHz LTE channel. In case you're not a networking or cellular nerd, the ability to send that much data to a cluster of nearby devices is basically un-doable with Read More>>
IBM gets in the arena app game with LTE Broadcast support
This one of the more nuanced press releases we've seen in some time, but there seems to be some meat behind the idea of IBM helping to design an LTE broadcast enabled stadium app for the Amsterdam Arena. We've reached out to the principals and so far no luck getting anyone on the phone, but we did get some more email info so I think I can piece together most of the story. Basically it appears Read More>>
Atlanta Hawks, Philips Arena sign with Boingo for DAS and stadium Wi-Fi
Boingo Wireless continued its deal-winning streak by signing up another NBA stadium for Wi-Fi and DAS services, this time the Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena. One of just six NBA facilities that didn't yet have Wi-Fi, the 18,118-seat Philips will now have fan-facing Wi-Fi by the start of the next NBA season, according to a press release from Boingo. We'll follow up with the Boingo and Philips Read More>>
Indianapolis Speedway adds Verizon DAS
It's still a work in progress, but Verizon Wireless customers who attend this year's Indianapolis 500 race should see improved cellular communications, thanks to a DAS buildout currently underway. According to Rhonda Winter, CIO for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Verizon was recently selected to build a neutral-host DAS which will add more than 200 internal and external antennas to the Read More>>
Guest Post: How CrowdOptic is helping the Indiana Pacers and the NBA use Google Glass
Editor's note: The following post is by Jon Fisher, CEO of CrowdOptic, the San Francisco company whose technology is helping bring Google Glass views to NBA arenas. While there's been a lot of talk about how this is happening Fisher explains the deployment in some more detail here. The feature is being used at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for today's opening game in the Eastern Conference Finals. By Read More>>
Niners’ new network team loses its CTO
Kunal Malik, once a very public spokesperson for the new network being built at Levi's Stadium, is no longer the chief technology officer for the San Francisco 49ers, according to team executives and Malik's own LinkedIn profile. Once the former director of IT at Facebook, Malik was seen as one of the masterminds behind the wireless network being put in at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, which Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Churchill Downs picks a winner with Mobilitie DAS
Move over, Super Bowls -- there's a new wireless-traffic event king on the U.S. sports landscape, and it's one that's been around longer than anything else. Thanks to a new distributed antenna system installed this year at historic Churchill Downs, fans at the recent Kentucky Derby were able to set single-event wireless traffic records, at a place where not too long ago getting a decent signal on Read More>>
