Baylin Technologies, the parent company of stadium cellular antenna provider Galtronics, announced an agreement to acquire the Sweden-based Kaelus, a company with leading antenna technologies in the areas of RF conditioning and testing and measurement. The deal, valued at $42 million Candian ($30.51 million USD) is expected to close early in 2026, pending regulatory approvals. […]
Madison Square Garden, Cisco sign multi-year tech partnership deal
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. announced a multi-year partnership deal with networking and security technology provider Cisco, making Cisco an “official partner” of Madison Square Garden. While Cisco technology is already in use at one of the world’s most famous arena venues, the new partnership deal is another big win for Cisco’s sports and entertainment […]
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In our fifth annual Stadium Connectivity Outlook Survey, respondents showed a significant shift in their annual economic concerns. While lowering operating costs, budgetary constraints, and increasing revenues remained the top three challenges for the next 12 months, this year lowering costs was cited by 72 percent of respondents, up from 64 percent in 2024 and […]
Longtime DAS player SOLiD puts a new focus on the U.S. stadium market
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 […]
