U.S. Bank Stadium ‘Connects’ With Super Bowl Fans
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When fans flood into U.S. Bank Stadium on Feb. 4, the Super Bowl excitement is guaranteed to be shared.
And when they do it will total multiple terabytes worth of cellphone texts and calls, photographs and videos.
Diana Scudder, executive director of network assurance for Verizon, knows that consumer’s appetite for cellphone data continues to grow.
More than 11 terabytes of data was consumed by Verizon’s customers at Super Bowl LI in Houston last year.
It is expected that fans attending the Super Bowl in Minneapolis will easily surpass that amount of data usage, making necessary the huge investment in communications technology at U.S. Bank Stadium.
A major part of that is the vast array of 1,200 cellphone antennas strategically placed throughout the stadium. It is called a Distributed Antenna System, or DAS.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/12/07/verizon-super-bowl/
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
Saw this on the local news last night...Pretty incredible.
Best news for Vikings fans? All that tech and capability will be there for us to use on a forward basis well after the SB has been played.
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