For years, the industry conversation around stadium technology has been stuck on a single, albeit important, metric: How many thousands of fans can simultaneously post a selfie to Instagram? Though the “connected stadium” was once a differentiator, it has rapidly become a baseline requirement. I recently talked to the leadership at Ruckus Networks and the Los Angeles Football Club about the recent deployment of Wi-Fi 7 at BMO Stadium (pictured), and one of the big takeaways is the narrative around high-density Wi-Fi has shifted.

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Beyond the fan experience: How Wi-Fi 7 is redefining the modern stadium

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced new networking, compute hardware, cloud operations software and financing updates for service providers at this past week’s MWC26 in Barcelona. The updates center on meeting the new demands being created by artificial intelligence reshaping every aspect of network design — from centralized data centers to distributed edge environments.

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HPE flexes some Juniper muscle at MWC26

For decades, the pinnacle of sports broadcasting was defined by how many satellite trucks one could park outside a stadium. But as we head toward the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics starting this week, that era is officially in the rearview mirror. NBCUniversal Media LLC has chosen Cisco Systems Inc. to deliver the AI networking technology for the Peacock Network’s “all-IP production” of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

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The network is the new production truck: Why NBC Sports is betting big on AI networking for the 2026 Winter Games

As CES wound down, industry watchers are now turning their attention to the National Retail Federation show across the country in New York. Retail, once is slow moving industry, is now ripe with change and the in-store environments have become operationally more complex.

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HPE Networking rolls out a bevy of retail products at NRF 2026

I’m a big fan of any technology that makes our lives easier. One example of this is Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which I consider to be the easiest check out experience available today. Customers tap their credit card on a reader, walk in a store, pick up whatever they want and then, as the name suggests, just walk out of the store and everything is charged to your account.

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Amazon’s Just Walk Out just walks out new use cases