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Stadium Tech Report

March 1st, 2025

Paul Kapustka

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

Hollywood Park vaccination site takes care of Los Angeles teachers

When it was finished, the temporary Covid-19 vaccination site for the Los Angeles Unified School District at Hollywood Park used a wireless network that was supported by optical fiber connections. While that sounds straightforward and simple, in this case there's a story behind the story about how the fiber found its way to the vaccination site. At the early March...

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Editorial

Coors Field: Building a replicable model for parking-lot vaccinations

After a year spent administering systems in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IT team at the University of Colorado Health system was thrown an outside curveball: With just a few weeks' notice, could they build a network to support a temporary outdoor mass vaccination site? With innovative thinking, some trial and error, and some help from a list...

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Editorial

Levi’s Stadium: Digital displays and club spaces make vaccinations go smoothly

If you wandered into the Levi's Stadium club spaces during a regular-season Niners game during non-pandemic conditions, you would likely find spots like the United Club and the Yahoo! Fantasy Football Lounge filled with football fans, enjoying the comforts and amenities of a premium seating space. But this spring, those areas were used to serve a different purpose, to provide...

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News

Appetize adds 5 MLB teams, 10 minor-league teams to concessions-systems roster

Food, beverage, and retail management software company Appetize Technologies Inc. has added five Major League Baseball teams and 10 minor-league teams this season to its roster of baseball venues using the company's systems to help power concessions and retail sales, according to the company. The five new stadiums using Appetize software and technology this season are Dodger Stadium, Progressive Field,...

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News

Cisco signs sponsor deals with NFL, Paris Olympics

Networking vendor Cisco announced sponsorship deals with the NFL and with the 2024 Paris Olympics Tuesday, separate deals that should both increase the exposure of Cisco's name in conversations about football and the Olympics in the near future. For stadium owners and operators, the more potentially interesting deal is between Cisco and the NFL, since many NFL stadiums currently use...

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