Innovative antenna design widening in use across NFL, including full-stadium deployments
TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MatSing, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-capacity lens antennas, today announced that it will be providing mobile capacity antenna coverage for the halftime show during this weekend’s Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL.
Using two 6-foot MatSing lens antennas, anybody at field level during The Weekend’s performance – confirmed to be completely live – will have 4G and 5G broadband mobile coverage. At previous halftime shows, this has allowed fans on the field at the performances of Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Maroon 5 and others to stream and share with fewer interruptions and dropped signals than traditional antennas and antenna arrays.
“This is now the fifth Super Bowl to which we’ve had the privilege of providing high-capacity broadband mobile coverage,” explained Michael Matytsine, MatSing co-founder and EVP of Operations. “Our lens antenna technology is expanding across the NFL, and it’s our hope that the technology becomes the go-to standard for mobile capacity coverage across the entire league.”
These latest deployments in the NFL are happening because MatSing’s spherical lens antennas are based on a unique patented technology that allows a single antenna to provide up to 48 high capacity coverage sectors, replacing up to 48 traditional antennas with a single lens. Unlike other current solutions, like under-seat antennas, the MatSing lens antennas installed in the roofing structure typically have a clear line-of-sight path to potential users. This significantly reduces the number of antenna locations, as lens antennas can also reach farther than traditional antennas, providing better coverage and less interference at a lower cost and complexity for the team.
The Super Bowl deployments join a full MatSing deployment at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and partial deployment near SoFi stadium in Los Angeles as use cases of lens antenna technology across the NFL.
About MatSing
Founded in 2005, MatSing has developed and patented new meta-materials to create the world’s first lightweight and multibeam Lens Antennas. This new approach for high-performance, high-capacity antenna design is more efficient and offers key advantages over dish and array antennas, the ability to provide broadband coverage, emit and maintain multiple beams, and to do so cleanly with minimal RF interference. Nationwide coverage isn’t the only critical challenge facing telecoms companies, and MatSing’s Lens antenna solution is ideal to meet the capacity demands of a smartphone-equipped population with new apps that chew through data, including uses at outdoor events, stadiums and macro uses in major cities. Each antenna can provide multiple independent sectors, up to 48, providing the highest capacity across multiple bands with the fewest antennas possible. MatSing lens technology is the perfect fit for 4G, LTE, and 5G mobile broadband coverage, and it is the most cost-effective network densification tool in the industry.
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Contacts
The Hoffman Agency on behalf of MatSing
Matthew Burrows
mburrows@hoffman.com
(408) 515-1475
