NFL owners unanimously voted for the implementation of CBA

Recently a surprisingly unanimous decision was taken by 32 team owners of NFL. They all accepted the negotiated terms based on the principles of the collective bargaining agreement. Particulars about the agreement were not revealed by the owners as well as Roger Goodell, Commissioner of NFL. After the meeting, team officials left the venue with no comments being made about the proposed CBA. The representatives of the players and the union executive committee will have a conference shortly and the NFL Players Association refrained from commenting on the latest NFL announcement. The owners are working relentlessly to replace the 10-year labor agreement that is due to expire in March 2021.

The new elements of the CBA are expected to be implemented in the upcoming season and the question of whether the players must vote in favor of it remains unanswered. NFL stated that the players can vote against the proposal or they can seek negotiations, but the current agreement will remain until 2020. A deadline was put by the league statement and within a week the players and clubs must have all systems in place for acceptance. Revenue for the players is expected to be more than the current rate, but it will remain 50 percent.

NFL Deploys High-Capacity WiFi Networks

Everyone who watched the Super Bowl 2020 has witnessed the excitement that filled the Hard Rock Stadium as the Kansas City Chiefs became this year’s champions. What wasn’t visible but was omnipresent was that WiFi connectivity in the stadium that gave the fans an enhanced experience during the game.

Be it a restaurant, hospital, library or a stadium, the Wifi scale matters. In hospitals, every day is game day. Healthcare wireless networks play a vital role in the day to day operations. Stadiums do not have game day every day but when they do, the WiFi connectivity needs to be at its best.

The Hard Rock stadium has the capacity of 65,000 while the Seattle Seahawks’ CenturyLink Field is NFL’s third busiest stadium with a 69,000 people capacity. Ensuring that the WiFi works properly for everyone is a difficult task that the NFL tackled in 2013 by using many in-stadium networking solutions including high-density WiFi connectivity, centralized network management and control, application-layer WiFi analytics, robust and intelligent switching infrastructure, WiFi carrier offload, policy-based network provisioning, and location-based services and promotions.

NFL has offered a positive game-day experience to its fan for several years now sharing important WiFi lessons that apply to other industries.