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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

Editorial

Venues need to radically rethink entry procedures

After a year of welcoming full-capacity crowds back to stadiums, it's apparent that while technology can assist venues in eliminating fan pain points, it's also clear that sudden shifts to new ways of doing things don't always go as smoothly as planned. For this column, we're going to focus on the process of stadium entry, where we saw some of...

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Video Interview: Justin Bushee, Boingo

"5G is not hype." That's one of the key messages that came across in our interview with Justin Bushee, vice president of business development at Boingo, who joined us at the ALSD Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Watch and listen as Bushee describes some of the new deployments underway from Boingo, which include 5G rollouts...

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Video Interview: Jackie Slope, Honda Center

What can venues do from a technology standpoint to make fans feel comfortable about returning to live events? That's one of the primary concerns right now for Jackie Slope, vice president of technology at the Honda Center, who joined us at the ALSD Conference and Trade Show in Las Vegas earlier this year. Slope, who joined the Honda Center staff...

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Venues look to 5G for new content experiences

With 5G cellular services starting to appear in more and more sports venues, the question we had for our audience of stadium IT professionals was, what do you plan to do with the new technology? According to the responses to our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, venues see 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) as technologies that will help them bring...

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Video Interview: Todd Landry, JMA Wireless

If you have spent any time in the stadium and large public venue wireless world, you no doubt have heard of JMA Wireless, a company whose gear is at the heart of many venue cellular infrastructures around the country and around the world. And if you know JMA, you probably know Todd Landry, corporate vice president for product and market...

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Survey says: Venues seek to improve security plans

One of the more striking responses in our recent Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey was the one where 85 percent of all respondents said that their current security stance was merely "adequate" or "not good enough." As security concerns increase and as digital touchpoints also expand, it's also perhaps not a surprise that planned spending on cybersecurity measures was the No....

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