At a time when adding more wireless capacity is a prime concern for large public venues, an upheaval in the traditional marketplace for distributed antenna system (DAS) equipment is creating an opening for solution suppliers with sustained experience and innovation. SOLiD, a longtime DAS player, is making a move back into targeting sports and entertainment […]
AFL is a strategic leader for venue-owned DAS in the new era of in-building wireless
Global telecommunications firm America Fujikura Ltd. (AFL) is seeking to make more of a public name for itself a year after acquiring DAS Group Professionals (DGP), one of the top providers of design and strategy for big-stadium cellular networks. According to AFL, the DGP acquisition completed a three-company purchase strategy that brought expertise in construction, […]
Case Study: Germany’s largest football stadium scores a SOLiD win for fan experience
Signal lduna Park is Germany’s largest football stadium, capable of hosting up to 82,000 fans. The sixth largest in Europe, the stadium holds the European average attendance record set during the 2011-12 season with 1.37 M fans over just 17 games. Signal lduna Park also includes the largest terrace for standing spectators in European football […]
Galtronics innovation brings new options for hyper-directional cellular antenna stadium deployments
By Galtronics As the demand for wireless bandwidth continues to increase across venues of all shapes and sizes, the new line of hyper-directional antennas from Galtronics, a company with more than 40 years of history in the high-quality RF antenna market, is designed to fill gaps in the current marketplace. By developing antennas that are […]
New RFID self-checkout technology for merchandise stores explodes across U.S. pro sports venues
A new use of an old wireless technology is creating a revolution in the stadium merchandise-store world, as self-checkout systems using radio frequency ID (RFID) sensors from a company called EXO Checkout are being installed at numerous large U.S. sports venues in rapid fashion. With a seemingly simple product — a sort of sink-looking bin […]
MetLife Stadium switches to Extreme for stadium Wi-Fi
MetLife Stadium, home of both the NFL’s New York Jets and New York Giants and one of the busiest large venues anywhere, has chosen Extreme Networks to supply a new Wi-Fi 6E network for the stadium, a process already underway. Kevin Wittnebert, Extreme’s senior director for public venues, sports and entertainment, said the deployment is […]
