Self-contained, synchronized data communication system nodes as stand-alone pods or embedded in concrete walkways and in walls at public venues including sports and entertainment venues

A system supporting the communications of video and data to hand held devices located within a sports and entertainment venue, comprising:

• at least one data server operating as a master server in managing video of various perspectives of an activity captured by video cameras located throughout the sports and entertainment venue;
• more than one pod including a synchronized server, wireless communications electronics and an integrated antennae deployed as communications nodes throughout the sports and entertainment venue and providing data including the video from the at least one server to supporting communications nodes and hand held wireless devices in use by spectators located within wireless range of the more than one pod and communication nodes at the sports and entertainment venue;
• wherein the at least one data server is in communication with synchronized servers operating as slave servers that are subordinate to the at least one data server while the synchronized servers are distributed throughout the sports and entertainment venue within the more than one pod and are configured to operate in replicating data managed and transmittable by the at least one data server, and wherein the more than one pod are deployed as a distributed network of self-contained communications nodes throughout spectator occupied areas of the sports and entertainment venue to provide data including the video from the at least one data server through the synchronized servers to hand held wireless devices in use by spectators located within wireless communication range of at least one of the more than one pod.