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Stadium Tech Report

December 21st, 2024

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Verizon adds 5G to 14 NBA arenas

Remember back at the start of 2020, when we told you that 5G was coming to stadiums? Well that trend is fully underway now, highlighted this week by Verizon's announcement that it had deployed its 5G ultra wideband services in 14 more NBA arenas, part of multi-year partnership agreements between Verizon and now 15 NBA teams. The NBA announcement follows...

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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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