Allegiant Stadium expands cellular coverage ahead of Super Bowl

Allegiant Stadium

To ensure that Allegiant Stadium’s robust fan-facing cellular networks are able to handle the additional demands of Super Bowl LVIII, the Las Vegas Raiders have expanded coverage both inside and outside the stadium, adding more coverage zones and support for new wireless spectrum in the process.

Keeping Guests Connected Anywhere, Anytime

The hospitality industry is on an upswing once again with worldwide revenues projected to be $550 billion in 2016.1 The fastest growing customer segment in this market is millennials who have grown up with technology and have different expectations. However, whether millennial, baby boomer, business or pleasure traveler hotels realize robust wireless connectivity is a must. These wireless networks are not only used by guests, but they also are utilized by staff to enhance productivity and increase safety.

Improve Employee Productivity and Satisfaction with Wireless Connectivity Solutions

Enterprises are undergoing dramatic changes in order to support today’s technological advances. This includes addressing wireless communication as traditional cellular networks attempt to meet exponentially increasing data demands. Employees expect mobile connectivity to ensure work productivity and stay connected throughout the day especially as collaborative environments have become the norm. Many companies are embracing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategies to help ensure employee satisfaction. Furthermore, best-in-class companies are building new structures with LEEDS (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification in mind. These new buildings have significant environmental benefits, but can be detrimental to wireless signal and require careful planning to ensure cellular communications. All of these changes in the corporate world are placing great demands on wireless networks and their ability to deliver reliable, robust coverage and capacity.

Keeping pace with the mobile communications needs of staff, patients and visitors 

Today’s healthcare facilities have transformed into high-tech hubs that not only demand robust cellular connectivity in-building, but often across expansive outdoor environments too. A medical center’s wireless network is critical for multiple purposes such as enhancing patient care and safety, increasing staff productivity, improving operations, and keeping family and friends connected. To accommodate these various needs, healthcare facilities are turning to converged networks. The wireless system must support a wide range of frequencies, different protocols, any modulation scheme, and it must be future-proof. The ultimate goal is to provide strong wireless connectivity inbuilding and across a medical campus cost-effectively.

Wireless networks enable workflows, and assure control, mobile access and security

With today’s global economy the industrial sector is becoming more competitive. It is ushering in new technologies and processes to ensure factories become more agile, productive, efficient and profitable. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) revolution is fundamentally changing how factories operate. IIOT is still in the nascent stages of adoption and considered the new frontier in manufacturing, but it could amount to a $2 trillion opportunity by 2020.1 Potentially the IIOT will impact everything from new product opportunities, to factory optimization and worker efficiency gains, resulting in top and bottom line increases. Consistent and reliable wireless communications is critical for factories in general, and now more than ever with IIoT-based smart manufacturing environments.

Empowering Shopping Malls with Ubiquitous Cellular Coverage 

Today’s malls are transforming. These mega structures not only include hundreds of stores, but many also house movie theatres, numerous restaurants, a playhouse, a hotel and parklike settings for resting during a busy day of shopping. Providing robust cellular coverage in such massive facilities visited by millions of shoppers every year is not an easy feat. It is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge as more and more customers use their smart phones to enhance their shopping experience. Furthermore, retailers and mall owners are utilizing the same in-building wireless network for a variety of applications that attract patrons and improve their in-store mobile experience.

Commercial Properties Recognize Wireless Connectivity Challenges

Today’s property managers are always looking for an edge in the highly competitive commercial real estate market. In fact, the U.S. office market vacancy rates are projected to hover around 12 percent for the next few years.1 To keep their properties full, managers must continue to ensure tenant satisfaction with building amenities above and beyond the standard offerings. Robust in-building cellular coverage and capacity is now becoming a must-have for commercial properties. Ever increasing data demands on traditional cellular networks require investments to empower tenants who expect mobile connectivity anywhere, anytime.