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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

5G

Editorial

Stadium technology provided support for mass vaccination sites

While the Covid-19 pandemic kept many fans from attending live events the past year, that didn't mean that stadiums stayed empty. After first serving as Covid-19 test sites, since the start of the year many stadiums and arenas across the country lent their parking lots and indoor spaces to vaccination efforts, using the wide-open spaces and already-in-place resources like power,...

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Editorial

The ‘magic’ you seek in wireless is ‘Frequency Neutral Networks’

There is a heated debate in the wireless industry; 5G vs. Wi-Fi. Proponents of 5G claim that massive speed increases and ubiquitous coverage will render Wi-Fi networks obsolete. Wi-Fi pundits claim that Wi-Fi has adopted the same technology that underpins 5G using chipsets that cost less because they are burdened by a lighter licensing load from patent holders. 5G proponents...

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Feature

From the archives: Tech shines through at Sacramento’s new Golden 1 Center (2017)

In 2016, the Sacramento Kings opened their new home, Golden 1 Center, with an emphasis on technology. As we found in our visit, the cellular distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi were first-rate in performance. In a recent phone interview with John Rinehart, president of business operations for the team, he said that all wireless systems are currently running well,...

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News

Extreme Networks to provide Wi-Fi 6 to 16 Major League Baseball stadiums

In one of the biggest sports-venue Wi-Fi deals ever, Major League Baseball said it has selected Extreme Networks as its new "official Wi-Fi solutions provider," a deal that will see Extreme Wi-Fi 6 gear being deployed in at least 16 MLB venues, beginning with the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park. In an announcement today, Extreme and MLB said the deal...

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News

Smaller crowd leads to smaller cellular numbers at Super Bowl LV

With limited attendance due to the Covid pandemic, the best bet on Super Bowl LV was that the fans’ wireless traffic usage totals — which in past history have only gone up every year — would be diminished from previous events. And even as the carriers continue to report numbers with parameters that make them hard to analyze, the bottom...

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News

Verizon updates DAS, brings more 5G to Raymond James Stadium ahead of Super Bowl LV

The limited number of fans being allowed to view Super Bowl LV live at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium should have no problem finding wireless connectivity inside the venue, thanks in part to new deployments that include a renovated 4G LTE distributed antenna system (DAS) and 5G cellular infrastructure from Verizon. Ordinarily, the Super Bowl would be the place where once...

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