System integrator?Connectivity Wireless, and JMA, a provider of 4G and 5G software-based technology, announced the deployment of a private LTE network using?Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)?for the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.
JMA highlighted that the trial of the OnGo ecosystem will make the Angel...
The National Football League team the Carolina Panthers used the 2015 offseason to improve the wireless fan experience its Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
At that time, the Panthers were looking for a technical partner to update the stadium?s wireless network infrastructure...
The Indianapolis Colts football team and its home stadium, Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium, have improved the venue's Wi-Fi capabilities in partnership with Verizon. Verizon is the official wireless service provider of the Colts.
Once the project is fully completed, it will boost...
Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo and the National Women's Soccer League's?Houston Dash?selected?Extreme Networks Smart OmniEdge solution to provide Wi-Fi connectivity in its home field, BBVA Stadium, Extreme said in a release.
BBVA Stadium claims to be the first MLS stadium to deploy Wi-Fi 6 technology....
Ohio Stadium has deployed high-density wireless connectivity across the whole venue to provide Wi-Fi services to more than 100,000 fans, The Ohio State University reported
The university said that fans were expected to have access to Wi-Fi services in the season-opening game on August 31...
U.S. firm Atomic Data is seeing a growing trend of sport venues adopting in-building wireless infrastructure for the provision of Wi-Fi connectivity and other services for better fan experience, the company?s enterprise project manager, Yagya Mahadevan, told In Building Tech.
?We are seeing a trend...
Communications infrastructure and services provider ExteNet Systems sees sport venues in the U.S. as key areas to be considered by cities for the future deployment of 5G service, Greg Spraetz,?SVP of the real estate solutions group at ExteNet Systems, told In-Building Tech.
?Sporting events draw...
Korean carrier LG Uplus has selected Canadian firm iBwave Solutions? software solution to complete what it claims to be Asia's?first 5G stadium design, the latter said in a release.
LG Uplus and iBwave have been working together for the last year in this project, the...
Real Wireless beefs-up stadium cellular and Wi-Fi
U.K. soccer club Tottenham Hotspur has inaugurated its new stadium in London with?free high-density Wi-Fi and mobile coverage in all areas.
The club had selected wireless advisory firm Real Wireless as well as communications equipment suppliers and installers to...
In the in-building wireless connectivity world, progress is often viewed through the lens of enabling pervasive data connectivity for all employees working in a particular building at a given time. However, the impacts of building automation, and IoT in general, will have a potentially...
Recently, CBRS and shared spectrum solutions have become the darling of the in-building wireless world. At a simplistic level, CBRS is envisioned to use standardized LTE technology propagated over unlicensed, or lightly licensed spectrum to build private wireless networks that can be managed either...
While DAS is essentially a prerequisite for equipping large venues with robust in-building coverage, it remains true that most commercial real estate buildings fall below the size threshold where DAS is an economically viable option. In these cases, wireless coverage has largely been left...
Although refrains such as ?DAS is dead?, and referring to new in-building wireless technologies as ?DAS killers? have become fashionable, both phrases are used more as clickbait than actual market analysis. In fact, when it comes to making in-building wireless more robust to meet...
According to a survey conducted by the Mobile Sports Report in 2016, nearly 90% of venues surveyed indicated that they had deployed at least a partial DAS, and 75% of the venues surveyed indicated that they had some level of Wi-Fi coverage present. However,...
A fight against the living room
Stadiums are in trouble. In a 1998 ESPN poll, 54% of sports fans said they'd rather watch a game at the stadium than at home. By 2011, only 29% of respondents to the same poll said they preferred being...
Preparing for the Olympics with a smart building
Honeywell created what it called the "intelligent system"?for the National Stadium in Beijing, China, turning the venue for the opening and closing events at the 2008 Summer Olympics into a "smart building." Designed by highly controversial artist...
