The Wi-Fi network at the MetLife Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday proved popular with fans, as between them they used 3.2 TB of data – around 50MB per person an hour.
According to computerworld.com, a new tool called Purview from Extreme Networks was used by the National Football League to analyse how the Wi-Fi network was utilised during the Super Bowl. It found that at its peak around 16 per cent of people at the stadium connected to the service, which is about 13,500 out of a possible 82,500.
The data also showed that the fans used the Wi-Fi service to browse their social media networks the most, possibly to post updates about the game and upload photos of their experience. Web browsing came in at a close second, followed by real-time communications, cloud storage and search engines.
Of those checking their social networks whilst connected to the Wi-Fi, 60 per cent of fans were using Facebook, making it the most popular platform of the game, an infographic on extremenetworks.com shows. Instagram and Twitter were also widely used by fans, with 18 per cent logging onto Twitter and 17 per cent uploading photos to Instagram.
In fact, over five pictures a second were uploaded to Instagram during the match. In total, that equates to more than 90,000 photos.
