Smart Venues and Stadiums
AI Overview
This RFP seeks open-source 5G/6G solutions for large venues facing connectivity challenges, dead zones, and vendor lock-in costs. Proposers should demonstrate how OCUDU and related open-source components improve network performance across real stadium deployments while benefiting the broader RAN development community.
This summary is AI-generated from the official solicitation.
Key Details
Official Description
The realistic near-to-mid-term serviceable addressable market for private 5G/6G-ready platforms among U.S. venues and stadiums is a subset of venues with acute connectivity, safety, and operational pain: major-league and collegiate stadiums, multi-purpose arenas, outdoor amphitheaters, and convention/exhibition centers that host recurring high-density events, require public-safety-grade coverage throughout bowls, concourses, tunnels, and back-of-house areas, and are increasingly asked to support...
Change History
Informational change · Description + Requirements
Smart Venues and Stadiums
- Eight Q&As added (no previous version, so all are new), covering demonstration site deliverables, demonstration conditions, ISAC hardware, aggregate throughput sizing, IFC 510/NFPA 1225 coverage, first-responder devices and MCX, Monthly Status Reports, and spectrum/as-a-service.
- Q1 clarifies a deliverable: the "factory-representative" demonstration site bullet was carried over from DV032 in error and does not apply to DV031; the applicable item is integration into an RTEC-affiliated network and/or a venue-representative site.
- Q2 allows non-live demonstrations: a live event is not required; a non-event-day venue test with physical RUs/UEs and synthetic load reproducing peaks is acceptable, with documentation of fidelity and load modeling.
- Q3 sets ISAC rules: no specific ISAC hardware is identified; a co-located SDR receiver using the RAN's own signals counts, but a separate sensing-only network does not; a surrogate target is acceptable instead of a real drone flight.
- Q4 shifts throughput sizing to performers: they must propose and justify venue footprint, cell count, bandwidth and reuse; the 150 MHz CBRS limit applies per location, not in aggregate.
- Q5 and Q6 set public-safety scope: coverage benchmarks apply, but the platform must coexist with existing ERRCS/BDA; LMR/P25 interworking and FirstNet access are out of Phase II scope.
- Q7 and Q8 address reporting and spectrum: MSRs to the working group must be non-proprietary, with OCUDU membership optional and allowability decided under FAR 31.205-43; CBRS is the expected band.
Informational change · Status
Smart Venues and Stadiums
Status changed from status: Pre-Release to status: Open.
Material change · Scope + Description
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Smart Venues and Stadiums
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