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MLB All-Star Week Drives Record Wi-Fi Fan Engagement
All-Star Week Festivities Netted More than 47 TB of Wi-Fi Data across Nearly 155,000 Devices MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Extreme Networks™, Inc.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nAll-Star Week Festivities Netted More than 47 TB of Wi-Fi Data across Nearly 155,000 Devices\n\n\n MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nExtreme Networks™, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR), a leader in cloud networking, today announced that the recent MLB All-Star Week in Seattle, which ran fully on Extreme wireless solutions, drove record fan Wi-Fi engagement with 155,000 clients connected and more than 47 TB of Wi-Fi data transferred throughout the Midsummer Classic festivities including Capital One PLAY BALL PARK, the T-Mobile Home Run Derby and All-Star Game presented by Mastercard. By contrast, Super Bowl LVII held in February generated 31.5 TB of Wi-Fi data transferred in a single day.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230718910795/en/(Graphic: Business Wire)\nMLB had a combined total of 2,201 Wi-Fi 6 access points across Lumen Field and T-Mobile Park to deliver an incredible experience for everyone attending All-Star Week, and fans took advantage of capturing and sharing their favorite moments from the event. ExtremeAnalytics and ExtremeCloud™ IQ solutions provided key insights around fan engagement, network performance and operational efficiencies.\n\n\nAll-Star Connectivity\n\n\n\nWi-Fi Engagement at Monday’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby accounted for 10 TB of Wi-Fi data transferred across 28,751 connected devices.\n\n\n\nThe All-Star Game presented by Mastercard on Tuesday drove 11.3 TB of data transferred across 29,255 connected devices.\n\n\n\nMost Engaging Moments\n\n\n\nFan Wi-Fi engagement peaked at three action-packed moments during Monday’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby, with a broken record for home runs in a single round and a heated semi-final round.\n\n\nBandwidth spiked to 7.8 Gbps as the derby started.\n\n\n\nWhen Julio Rodríguez of the Seattle Mariners broke the single-round Home Run Derby record at 41, bandwidth peaked at 8.1 Gbps.\n\n\n\nEngagement increased to 8.4 Gbps when the semi-final round began, with Randy Arozarena of the Tampa Bay Rays stepping up to the plate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Tuesday night’s All-Star Game presented by Mastercard fan engagement peaked at the three following moments:\n\n\nNetwork bandwidth shot to 7.7 Gbps as Mariners legends Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martínez threw out the ceremonial first pitch.\n\n\n\nBandwidth spike...