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Stadium Tech Report

April 9th, 2026

Editorial

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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Is your stadium ready for AI?

I speak with sports, stadium, and live environment executives around the world frequently, and AI continues to come up as a board-level topic. Leadership teams are asking the same questions: what should we be doing with AI, where is the value of using it, and how fast do we need to move? The urgency is understandable. AI is already changing...

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Stadium networks are about to get more complicated

The Internet is no longer a human network. With connected devices projected to surge past 30 billion by 2030, we have officially entered an era where the silent conversations between machines far outpace the digital footprints of the people who created them.- Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO, Verizon, CES 2019 When Vestberg made this claim in 2019, he was describing...

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