Estadio Azteca · Estadio Banorte · Mexico City
Every Screen Alive
Inside Mexico City’s iconic Coloso, AVPro MXNet quietly became the world’s largest single 10G AV-over-IP network — feeding more than 500 displays and over 20 video walls from one unified system.
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.
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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.
An Engineering Perspective: Kevin Wang
Kevin Wang on Site at Estadio Banorte
I first became involved with the Estadio Banorte project before ISE 2025 with the system design going through several major revisions as the customer’s requirements continued to evolve.
Because of cybersecurity and confidentiality requirements, I cannot share many of the technical details. However, the most important part of the project was that we recreated the entire system in our factory laboratory before deployment.
The R&D team and I spent seven full days building the complete system and carrying out the initial testing. After that, the wider AVPro team conducted another 14 days of integration testing. This allowed us to validate the design, test the network and system behavior, and identify potential problems before the equipment arrived on site.
The time and cost savings from this preparation are difficult to quantify, but they were among the main reasons the implementation went so smoothly. It also demonstrated the value of combining detailed engineering preparation with the effort of the entire AVPro team.
How It Works
Any Content, Any Screen, Instantly – With One Tap
What makes the experience so seamless is how the system moves signals to each screen. Rather than running a separate cable to every display, AVPro’s platform carries multiple independent video streams across a single shared 10-gigabit network and lets each decoder pull exactly the feeds it needs, from a single match angle on a concourse TV to several sources stitched together on a video wall. Every screen receives lossless 4K video with end-to-end latency low enough that the picture is effectively instantaneous, so a goal celebrated on the field is celebrated on every display in the same breath. For the people operating the venue, switching what plays where is as simple as a tap, even across hundreds of endpoints at once.
Conceptual Application Diagram of How MXnet 10G Routes Video
The Network
Engineered as one system, end to end
None of this works without the network underneath it, and this is where the project truly stands apart. AVPro didn’t just supply the video gear; the team designed and deployed the entire supporting infrastructure, building a resilient backbone with a dual stacking core, a 400G interconnect tying the stadium’s main distribution points together, 23 separate distribution areas reaching every corner of the venue, and redundant 100G uplinks throughout. By engineering switches, networks, encoders, and decoders into a cohesive system from a single manufacturer, AVPro removed the finger-pointing and guesswork that so often plague large installations. The infrastructure didn’t merely tolerate the demands of real-time AV; it was purpose-built for them, and it performed flawlessly under full load.
“One of the most important challenges of the project was to install everything in a surprisingly short time, as the stadium suffered a major renovation, so coordination between construction, fiber infrastructure, and hardware installation and commissioning was critical. But we managed to complete the project on time.
– Octavio Villa, Deputy General Manager at Pop Media, Technology
From Core Racks to Commissioning, AVPro Designed and Deployed the Full Network
The Scale
The Largest Single 10G SDVoE AV-over-IP Network in the World
The scale of the deployment is what sets it apart. Phase 1 alone runs 16 channels of 4K60 encoding, feeding 580 decoder endpoints, all on a single continuous network, making this the largest single-site 10G SDVoE AV-over-IP deployment in the world, a distinction AVPro has confirmed directly with Semtech, the technology’s originator. While other venues have purchased large quantities of SDVoE endpoints before, those projects were stitched together from several separate networks; Estadio Banorte runs as one. The system has already passed factory full-load testing, large-scale switching trials, co-existence testing alongside IPTV and Samsung VXT digital signage, and high-availability validation. And it is built to grow: the architecture scales beyond 2,000 nodes, with Phase 2 set to bring the venue to roughly 1,500 endpoints.
Passed factory full-load testing, large-scale switching trials, co-existence testing with IPTV and Samsung VXT digital signage, and high-availability validation.
Why It Matters
A flagship for the professional AV world
For the professional AV world, this is the headline: a deployment of this size and reliability, delivered as a complete ecosystem and a fully engineered network, is something AVPro’s competitors, Crestron, Extron, Visionary, and the rest of the video-distribution field have simply not done at this scale on a single network. Estadio Banorte is living proof that 10G AV-over-IP belongs in the largest, most demanding venues on the planet, and that one platform can handle the whole job from the camera to the very last screen. Most telling of all, this project does not represent the upper limit of what AVPro can do. It is a flagship and a preview of what is to come.
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