On July 11th, 2019, the 5G ESSENCE project demonstrated the first use case (“5G Edge Network Acceleration at Stadium”) at the Egaleo municipal football stadium “Stavros Mavrothalasitis”, which is located at the centre of Egaleo town in the wider Attica area, and it is an open stadium with capacity of about 8,000 spectators.

Several viewers of MoE (Municipality of Egaleo), NCSRD (National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”) and OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A.), among them the Mayor of the Municipality of Egaleo, have attended a training football game. The event has been successfully broadcasted to the eMBMS (evolved Multimedia Broadcast / Multicast Services) enabled UEs (User Equipment) of the viewers.