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Stadium Tech Report

May 8th, 2026

Editorial

The bottleneck has moved. Is your network ready?

For the better part of a decade, high-density Wi-Fi was a game of managing scarcity. Spectrum was the constraint. Everything we did as engineers, including antenna design, channel planning, and feature development was about extracting performance from a limited resource. We got very good at it. But we were always working around the same fundamental ceiling. Six gigahertz broke that...

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From broadcast booth to AI fabric: why stadiums are becoming technology platforms

Stadiums have historically treated broadcast, IT, and building systems as separate domains, each justified and optimized on its own terms. This approach has led to duplicated infrastructure, fragmented data, and operational complexity that continually increases as new systems and functions are added. To simplify operations and cut costs, a new model is emerging in which systems share a common IP-based...

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Moore’s Law Built Your Stadium. Huang’s Law Is About to Disrupt It.

How AI is exposing the gap between the network you built and the intelligence it needs to carry Every generation or so, a single insight rewires how the world invests in technology. For the last half century, that insight was Moore’s Law. Now there is a second insight known as Huang’s Law. Together they explain why the network infrastructure decisions...

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Will AI cause converged networks to cross the chasm?

A familiar pattern runs through the history of modern technology. A new approach proves its value with early adopters, spreads slowly, and then stalls. The broader market watches and waits, not because the technology doesn't work, but because the pragmatic case for disrupting the status quo isn't strong enough yet. Then a new business requirement emerges. The risk of not...

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The Digital Diamond: How Wi-Fi is powering the next era of the fan experience at Oracle Park

While baseball remains timeless, the venues it is played in are increasingly powered by network platforms built for a generation that thinks digital first. That dynamic was on full display at the San Francisco Giants annual Media Day, where Oracle Park demonstrated how an iconic ballpark must continually evolve to remain a high-performance digital environment. From connectivity upgrades to AI-driven...

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Building the AI-Ready Stadium

What Google published in 2017 could unlock your venue's AI potential In 2017, a team of researchers at Google published a paper with an understated title: Attention Is All You Need. It introduced a new way of processing information called the transformer architecture that led to the AI explosion we are experiencing today. Most people outside the field ignored it...

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