CASE STUDY

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

THE PROJECT

A legendary venue, reimagined for the modern fan

AVPro worked alongside our partners to deliver this solution to the people of Mexico City and to the wider world, transforming how video moves through one of fútbol’s most legendary venues. Pop Media served as the integrator and leader, Duoson as AVPro’s distributor in Mexico, and Polaris Controls rounded out the team as the brand representative. At Estadio Banorte, which the people of Mexico have called Estadio Azteca for the last 60 years and known nationwide as El Coloso de Santa Úrsula, the team designed and deployed a single, stadium-wide video network built entirely on the AVPro MXnet 10G AV-over-IP platform. As the venue prepares to host a packed calendar of major fútbol events this summer, beginning with Mexico versus South Africa on June 11, that network delivers live action, replays, way-finding, and branded content on screen everywhere a fan looks. The result is a fan experience that feels effortless, and an engineering achievement that the AV industry will be talking about for years.

THE VENUE

El Coloso de Santa Úrsula

Estadio Banorte is not an ordinary building. Opened in 1966 and rising 2,200 meters above sealevel, it is the largest stadium in Latin America and one of the most storied fútbol’grounds on Earth, the only venue to have twice hosted the final of the sport’s biggest global tournament, and the stage for the most iconic moments in the game’s history. Bringing a place like this into the modern era meant solving a problem of sheer scale: how to deliver pristine, perfectly synchronized video to every concourse screen, suite, hospitality space, and giant video wall across an enormous concrete bowl, all from a single source of truth, with no stutter, no lag, and no compromise. For tens of thousands of fans in the stands and millions more watching from around the world, every one of those screens has to come alive at exactly the right instant.

Estadio Banorte, Mexico City

THE SOLUTION

One complete AVPro ecosystem

To make that happen, AVPro delivered a complete, end-to-end product ecosystem rather than a patchwork of parts. At the heart of the system are MXnet 10G SDVoE transceivers, compact encode-and-decode endpoints that sit behind each display, paired with MXnet 100G core switches, MXnet access switches, and dual CBOX-HA control systems for high-availability management of the entire network. Together, these components route live video to more than 500 televisions and over 20 large-format video walls throughout the stadium. Because every endpoint speaks the same language on the same network, any source can be sent to any screen, anywhere in the building, the moment an operator calls for it.

Estadio Banorte, Mexico City

THE VENUE

El Coloso de Santa Úrsula

Estadio Banorte is not an ordinary building. Opened in 1966 and rising 2,200 meters above sealevel, it is the largest stadium in Latin America and one of the most storied fútbol’grounds on Earth, the only venue to have twice hosted the final of the sport’s biggest global tournament, and the stage for the most iconic moments in the game’s history. Bringing a place like this into the modern era meant solving a problem of sheer scale: how to deliver pristine, perfectly synchronized video to every concourse screen, suite, hospitality space, and giant video wall across an enormous concrete bowl, all from a single source of truth, with no stutter, no lag, and no compromise. For tens of thousands of fans in the stands and millions more watching from around the world, every one of those screens has to come alive at exactly the right instant.

Estadio Banorte, Mexico City

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