RAN Research Note: Stadium trials are proving grounds for new architectures

Until recently, large stadiums and venues either didn‟t support decent mobile services, or were the preserve of DAS. Now, they have become every vendor‟s favorite showcase for their most cutting edge solutions, a challenging yet fully controlled environment in which to hint to the world (and customers) what they might have up their sleeve for the next wave of wireless networks.

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