Metro Atlanta baseball and football fans should be able to simultaneously send tweets in the blink of an eye and livestream video without interruption when the area’s two new stadiums open in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Top managers leading the SunTrust Park and Mercedes-Benz stadium projects are trying to “future-proof” the arenas with hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable, a terabyte of capacity to handle simultaneous streams and more than 1,000 wireless access points. All that, they hope, will put the parks in the upper echelons of digital sports fields.
The stakes are high: today’s sports fans go to games carrying cell phones, tablets and smart watches and expect connectivity that is as fast and as reliable as what they have at home or work.