In what has to be a first for the NFL’s big game, Verizon is actively telling its customers who will be in New Orleans for this year’s Super Bowl to stay away from the stadium Wi-Fi, and use Verizon 5G cellular services instead. “It’s absolutely a performance thing,” said Joseph Russo, Verizon executive vice president […]
DOJ sues to block HPE’s $14 B acquisition of Juniper, possibly slowing HPE’s ability to bring AI to stadium networks
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit challenging Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s pending $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, a move that could potentially keep HPE from bringing Juniper’s innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) products to the stadium technology marketplace. Though the complaint filed by the DOJ primarily focuses on its claims that the merger […]
Amazon, AiFi add checkout-free concession stands at Australian Open
Both Amazon and AiFi have opened new checkout-free concession stands at the Australian Open this year, the first such deployments we are aware of at the tennis season’s first “major” event. Partnering with caterer Levy Australia, Amazon has opened two of its “Just Walk Out” stores ahead of this year’s tournament, one in the Rod […]
Dickies Arena adds ‘sports theater’ LED lighting system
Dickies Arena announced that it has added a “sports theater” LED lighting system that will allow the venue to create event-specific lighting environments for a variety of different programs using a single control system that can perform tasks like adjusting lighting angles and changing light colors. The Fort Worth, Texas-based Dickies Arena, which opened in […]
Fans flock to new Wi-Fi 6E network at Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium
After years of attending events in a Wi-Fi desert, fans at the University of Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium have been soaking up bandwidth this football season, averaging 5.3 terabytes of data used per game on the venue’s new Wi-Fi 6E network. In addition to providing Utes fans with an amenity they had long desired, the network […]
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