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Stadium Tech Report

June 5th, 2025

C-Band

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Stadium DAS market facing seismic changes

By Paul Kapustka The market for distributed antenna systems (DAS) is going through a seismic shift, as changes in the DAS ecosystem point to a future premised on emerging business models. Equipment manufacturers, mobile network operators (“MNOs” or wireless carriers), integrators, third-party operators (“3POs”), and importantly, teams, venues, and venue operators will be negotiating a brave new world as they...

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Hyper-directional gets hyper-competitive

The hyper-directional wireless antenna market for stadiums is getting hyper-competitive, with news of a planned acquisition in the Wi-Fi space and a new competitor emerging in the cellular market. On the Wi-Fi product side, sources have told Stadium Tech Report that Fortinet, a leader in networked security, may have already agreed to acquire Everest Networks, a manufacturer of long-reach or...

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New long-reach ‘hyper-directional’ wireless antennas provide revenue and operational benefits for stadium networks

After more than a decade of trying to fit fan-facing wireless antennas into stadiums with varying levels of success, teams and venue owners have a powerful new tool to assist them in their quest to build networks that are both high performing and economically sound: The "long reach" or "hyper-directional" wireless antenna. This diagram from a Cisco 9104 data sheet...

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New reality or anomaly – Super Bowl 59 Wi-Fi usage off dramatically

As it turns out, the lopsided score on the football field at Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9 wasn't the only blowout that took place in Caesars Superdome that night. In the wireless community, the competition at the NFL's championship game was between the fan-facing cellular and Wi-Fi networks. In surprising fashion it wasn't even close. The combined AT&T and...

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News

AT&T Stadium upgrades DAS with C-band coverage

What is probably the biggest in-building distributed antenna system (DAS) got even bigger this year, when AT&T Stadium added 14 more MatSing Lens Antennas to cover the newly available cellular C-band spectrum. In a press release from MatSing, Dallas Cowboys CIO Matt Messick said that the stadium's choice to go with a main strategy of using the high-capacity MatSing antennas...

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