In-game betting during live sports events is the new sports tech enhanced craze making the 2020 U.S. Open Championship at Winged Foot, PGA Tour tournament launch for Chirp, a new and free golf wagering app developed by 8AM Golf and the app’s sponsor, Cisco, well-timed. The owner of GOLF Magazine/Golf.com and GolfLogix (the most downloaded app in golf history), enters into the gaming space with real-time games ready to play as you watch the second Major golfing event of the year beginning Thursday. As viewers watch each PGA Tour broadcast, live in-round odds are pushed out to the app allowing users 30 seconds to bet (or not) on live scenarios. Can Rory McIlroy reach the green on a three-par with his tee shot? Will Tiger Woods make his...

How Digital is Revolutionizing the Sports and Entertainment World.

#CiscoChat Recap: How Digital is Revolutionizing the Sports and Entertainment World.

The Cisco Sports and Entertainment Solutions Group TweetChat last week titled, “How Digital is Transforming the Game-Day Experience” co-hosted by myself and company executives was well attended by sport and technology industry influencers, media publications, and fans. Eight questions including a poll question were offered to the public covering a variety of topics surrounding the delivery and enhancement of the fan experience for in-venue ticket holders and home viewers, as well as for teams, venues and sponsors...

Cisco SESG “How Digital is Transforming the Game-Day Experience” TweetChat With Co-Host Sports Techie.

Cisco SESG “How Digital is Transforming the Game-Day Experience” TweetChat With Co-Host Sports Techie

Sports Techie is participating with host Cisco Sports and Entertainment Solutions Group in an upcoming TweetChat titled “How Digital is Enhancing the Fan Experience” as co-host of the event on November 1 from 10-11 AM PST (1-2pm ET). The business of sport and tech is changing the Gameday experiences for fans, teams, venues and sponsors alike. The Sports Techie community blog will help discuss relevant topics about technology integration in the sports industry and “How Digital is Enhancing the Fan Experience.”

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Cisco Technology Helps Enable First Live Streamed World Series – Sports Techie blog

Cisco Technology Helps Enable First Live Streamed World Series

For the first time in Major League Baseball history, the 2014 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals entire seven games were streamed live across the Internet enabled by Cisco, an Industry first. The historical digital fan experience delivered by MLBAM and Cisco during the 110th Fall Classic to smartphones, tablets and computer laptops over the At Bat app allowed fans a multitude of multi-platform product options with no blackouts. The Sports Techie community blog readers and followers can read more about Cisco’s influence on sports technology here, and MLB’s innovative products here...

Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014 – Sports Techie blog

Cisco Video Technology Delivers Throughout The Sports Year And At IBC 2014

IBC 2014 is going on this weekend and Cisco is there after a sporting year where their technology helped to power the World Cup Brazil, NBC Sochi Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. Cisco and TV Globo, a Brazilian TV network and significant global content producer, together created a 4K/ultraHD (UHD) to showcase the proof-of-concept ‘Future of Video’ people witnessed during the World Cup event, allowing the executive team an exclusive opportunity to see the look and feel of the future of live sports inside the redefined home user experience...

Norwegian Professional Football League first in the world to implement team Wi-Fi and mobile video, Photo and illustration: Thomas Torjusen – NPFL

The Norwegian Professional Football League (NPFL) signed a new deal today and becomes the first league in the world to implement Wi-Fi and Mobile Video as a league-wide Solution. This announcement regarding the fact that the NPFL will become the first Pro soccer league in the world to implement Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi and Cisco StadiumVision Mobile at every team’s venue is sports tech history. The Sports Techie community blog is honored to share this pioneering Industry news by Cisco and their sport business partners...

NBC Olympics Sochi – Competition Begin February 6th

A pioneering sports technology deal between Cisco and NBC Olympics was announced at the CES 2014 event in Las Vegas where NBC Olympics’ production of the XXII Winter Games in Sochi, Russia will utilize the new Videoscape Cloud Solution. It is the privilege of the Sports Techie community blog to share the news that Cisco has been selected to provide video hardware and cloud software components from its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to support transcoding and content management during its production of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, from February 6-February 23. The announcement was made by Craig Lau, Vice President, Information Technology, NBC Olympics, and J...

Manchester City to install Cisco High Density Stadium WiFi and Fan Mobile Video Solution at Etihad Stadium

With Cisco Connected Sports solutions football fans can now get information at their finger-tips and share their match-day emotions and thrills without worrying about mobile connection issues

Manchester City

Manchester City Football club is 100% owned by His Ultra Sports Techie Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. As a result, Manchester City is about to become the first Premier League team to deliver High Density Stadium WiFi and the Cisco Fan Mobile Video Solution. According to Cisco, “Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium is soon to be transformed into the Premier League’s most technologically fan-friendly stadium.” These ground-breaking Solutions are in fact sports technol...

Today is a big day in sports technology thanks to the new StadiumVision Mobile by Cisco. For the first time, sports and entertainment venues now have the ability to overcome bandwidth issues and deliver Live video to fans’ mobile devices. StadiumVision is transforming the fan experience by keeping fans connected at the center of attention. This proprietary tech is another layer in the Cisco Internet of Everything.

Cisco states, “10 billion mobile devices are projected to be in use by 2016, and 71 percent of mobile data traffic is expected to be video by that time as well.” Over 100 venues worldwide use Cisco’s customized solutions.

Sports Techie had a conference call today with David Holland, SVP GM of Cisco Sports & Entertainment, and Mike Caponigro, Global Solutions Marketing L...

New Barclays Center implements Cisco Connected Stadium (free) Wi-Fi, and StadiumVision, for Brooklyn Nets NBA basketball games and other events.

Barclays Center, Cisco and the Brooklyn Nets Sports are Technology pioneers – 3D via dbox SHoP

Cisco, Barclays Center and Nets

The new Barclays Center is implementing Cisco’s Connected Sports and Entertainment intelligent network solutions – Connected Stadium Wi-Fi, together with StadiumVision, for Brooklyn Nets NBA basketball games and other venue events. Cisco developed Connected Stadium Wi-Fi to address the connectivity problem created by dense environments and clusters of people at facilities like arenas, and both the Barclays Center and Nets wanted in...