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Stadium Tech Report

January 22nd, 2025

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Dickies Arena: Raising the fan experience to the highest level

Without a professional or major college sports team as a main tenant, it’s somewhat of a wonder that Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, got built at all. But once you step inside and attend an event there, the wonder shifts to the sheer excellence that surrounds you, in what may be simply the best-built arena-sized venue, anywhere. It might...

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Colorado brings Wi-Fi and DAS to Folsom Field

There will be a change in the air at Folsom Field this fall, and not just from the team that new head coach Mel Tucker will lead onto the gridiron. For the first time, the mile-high atmosphere inside the University of Colorado's historic venue will be filled with fan-facing Wi-Fi and cellular signals, thanks to new networks being installed this...

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Super Bowl LIV recap: Big jump in per-device usage fuels record Wi-Fi mark

The big game is back on top of the unofficial Mobile Sports Report single-day Wi-Fi rankings, with a mark of 26.42 terabytes of data used at Super Bowl LIV in Miami, according to figures reported by Extreme Networks. What’s most interesting (to us) about the number is that it was generated in a venue that had approximately 8,000 fewer fans...

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DIY method brings Wi-Fi to Rutgers basketball arena

It was a bit more complicated than a trip to Home Depot, but when the Rutgers University IT team wanted to bring fan-facing Wi-Fi to the school’s basketball arena but didn’t have the budget for a big-name contractor or vendor deal, it did what many weekend warriors do when faced with the same build vs. buy decision: They did it...

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