New York Yankees Select Lumen Technologies for Stadium and Data Center Connectivity

The New York Yankees have selected Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) to connect Yankee Stadium to the team's Tampa, Florida data center via two independent 100-gigabit fiber paths - one routed through New York and one through New Jersey - with automatic failover if either path is disrupted. The Tampa facility, operational since 2022, features a 3,500-square-foot data floor and is engineered to withstand 200 mph sustained winds.

Live sports are one of the clearest examples of how real-time demand is reshaping industries. The Yankees understand that success today depends not just on what happens on the field, but on the systems behind every decision, every play, and every fan interaction. We're proud to give them a network that holds up under pressure and scales with their ambition, says Ryan Asdourian, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Lumen Technologies.

With automatic failover, we can lose our entire central office and still maintain connectivity to the Tampa data center. The Yankees cannot go offline, and having Lumen's infrastructure safeguards our operations, says Erron Pettry, Senior Manager of Data Center Facilities Operations, New York Yankees. When the Yankees stars hit a home run, thousands of fans instantly capture it, text it, and share it. That creates a significant surge in bandwidth, and we trust Lumen to help keep that connectivity moving out of the stadium - which is why this partnership is so important.

If my team is doing their job and the network's doing its job and everything's working, nobody notices anything. The goal of my team is to be invisible, says Scott Swist, Senior Director of IT, New York Yankees.

AI is a new and exciting frontier, and our new Tampa facility provides us with room to grow into emerging cloud and AI services. We partnered with Lumen to feel secure that our network can keep an immense volume of data moving whenever and wherever the organization needs it to go. The partnership between the Yankees and Lumen has been transformative for us, says Mike Lane, Senior Vice President of Technology and Broadcasting and CIO, New York Yankees.

Lumen's Network-as-a-Service model allows the Yankees to scale bandwidth capacity by event rather than maintaining peak capacity year-round. The network supports more than 50,000 fans and staff on a sold-out game day.

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