Touring a NFL Stadium Data Center!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- We take you for a tour of the secret data center found deep within Levi's Stadium, the home of the San Francisco 49ers #49ers #nfl
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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:06 On the 49ers Field
01:39 The Hidden 49ers Data Center at Levi's Stadium
05:05 The Executive Huddle for Game Day Metrics
07:48 Touring the Levi's Stadium Press Box
09:43 Wrap-up 
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Pretty cool insight in the forums is that a lot of that fiber is required for the massive 4G/5G antenna array in the stadium forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/very-fun-and-different-content-today.43033/post-409681
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Was excited when I saw this video title but bummed out that there was no in depth tour of what's actually going on in there, but the same 12 b-roll shots on repeat. Would be super cool to hear what they are actually running instead of just a high-level overview that we already could assume
Looking at the space each reporter is given in that press area tells me the electronic press kit is a must for space management alone. No room for multiple record books and that souvenir program with biographies on all the players and their dogs - so the stadium has to provide a huge searchable sport database in multiple languages because big-time sports has an international audience. Now add private links to the camera teams on the sidelines and back to their editors on the other side of the world, and suddenly all that wiring starts to make sense.
Indeed. For a data center tour, there was f... all of an actual "tour".
Indeed I would love to see some more indepth on this such as the various sensors used, types of connectivity, what software and systems and how it all interlinks. I saw in the exec huddle room some nice Grafana dashboards but would love to know more on the backend of what feeds into it for example, the speeds of connectivity around the place, number of access points, anything and everything
Not just the same B-roll, but the same basic facts that could apply to any company's network. "They have servers, and routers, and a phone system"....
Yeah, not to mention a ton of it being wrong... All of those "APs" were clearly DAS. Just start going through racks and showing exactly what they're using. Was pretty funny to see UniFi shoved in beside real gear like Broadcom. Could've talked for days about this.
I got to provide network support for my local NFL Stadium a couple months ago. We specialize in the vendor they use, and wanted us on site to help troubleshoot/resolve issues if they popped up. Very cool to see all the tech behind the scenes. What was really interesting was the metrics reported on network usage. 2TB of data uploaded to instagram, 3TB uploaded to Twitter, etc.
Very cool!
09:20 "I always thought there'd be 30, 40, maybe 49 folks or so..." Nice!
You caught it :-) Have a great weekend!
Carriers didn't want you to see their DAS systems? Many of the antennas around the stadium and shopping malls aren't wifi, they are DAS for cellular providers.
How do we get Patric to the Super Bowl to do some behind the scenes of the same kind of stuff?
Because this stuff is super cool. Like the fact these stadiums are equipped to broadcast to 50+ Million people is insane!
Working on an even bigger sporting event later this year :-)
IEM dallas? @@ServeTheHomeVideo
@@ServeTheHomeVideo Bigger than the SB ??? 😯
Not a stadium employee, but I do work at a national lab in a division with a very large particle accelerator, the IT infrastructure is nuts and rather interesting, not only does it exist to monitor various gauges and sensors or to control various devices in a gigantic building, it exists to support various experiments. Also cool thing, some of the computer hardware around here is a mix between brand new and outdated, sometimes outdated by decades, sometimes you see a PCI FPGA that 25 years ago cost $15k, sometimes you see cutting edge modern hardware
That kind of stuff we never get to show off :-/
@@ServeTheHomeVideo Fermilab was very welcoming to my high school physics class back in the day. I bet they'd be more than happy to show off some of their tech on the channel.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo sometimes it is just worth asking, some labs are very open to the press
I'm curious whether are "dark" cell antennas installed throughout the stadium that get activated for games and events. With fixed price plans being the norm, most people don't bother switching to WiFi unless their signals are bad.
They definitely have cell sites at these locations. My guess is they're always on rather than only activated during events.
They're left on 24/7. It's just easier, not to mention all of the people who work in the stadium outside of event times. And you'd be surprised how many people hop on WiFi.
As a life-long 49ers fan, and been to Levi's a couple times, this was very cool to see.
Glad you liked it!
Very cool to see the data center at a stadium. I noticed you kept showing the cell phone antennas but never showed the DAS area where all the phone equipment is and what it takes for all those people to be able to share on social media. They don't all log into the local WiFi a lot of people just use their local carrier for access and not WiFi. So seeing the DAS at a stadium would be really cool
They did show the DAS, but they were too clueless to know what it was. See those large white flat antennas that say DGP on them? Those are the DAS antennas, they just kept calling them wifi access points. Massive Fail.
Nice inside view of that Stadium from an IT-Nerd perspective 😀
Can you do something similar for the Sphere in Vegas? Guess it will be awesome to see the details of that huge screen and how it is fired up with data etc.
My college roommate works on Big Sky and their team has seen my PhoenixNAP video. I have already asked about The Sphere
I worked many years at an arena which had hockey/basketball/indoor football. Being in the minor leagues, we definitely didn't have the proper budget. Some years I was lucky to get $500/year for parts. At one point, all of the building's credit card transactions went through a computer I found by the side of the road...and it stayed that way for 2 years!
The broadcast trucks typically connects to the stadium as well, uncompressed 4K ferrying around to those press boxes and all the cameras and microphones capturing the game and fans. It wouldn't surprise me to see some Evertz s gear in there
Sadly, the broadcast trucks were not there yet (this was last Wed AM)
The amount of cabling is insane. I can’t even imagine how many miles or cable there are or how long it took to install all of it.
Also curious what the bandwidth is for their ISP. Has to be at least 100G, right?
The crazy part is seeing all of the cables around the stadium as you walk around (and look for it)
@@ServeTheHomeVideo I've noticed a couple of armored fiber cables in the rack so probably from the ISPs. Crazy amount of cabling for that place! I live near the bay area so would love to visit this room someday. 😁
I would expect multiple ISPs
@@evarlast Right, and the multiple, separated access routes are really verified along their entire length (and not just by a salesperson's promise) to be sure a single construction project - or even a small earthquake - won't be able to shut down the connections. Government-scale big money is associated with every minute of the game.
Having worked in an arena, you should see how much cabling is involved with any show. I don't even want to know how many miles of cable I've run over the years, sometimes just for run a 4 hour show.
Awesome behind the scenes tour! So cool to see infrastructure hiding in plain sight that supports our every day life. Great work Patrick!
IBM gave me a tour of the data center at the Mercedes Benz Dome in Atlanta a couple of years ago. Awesome.
Would have been cool to have more detailed information about amount of accesspoints, total bandwidth capacity and data usage during an game.
Totally agree. I asked, but everyone was busy getting ready for the Packers game when we were there.
Nice 49ers hoodie! Tech and 49ers are my 2 favorite topics.
Very very cool you were able to get in there to film all of this!!
Yea! We got the "go" and almost immediately got on the plane. A tight timeframe for sure!
Really cool to see inside the stadium like this as a niners fan and chip enthusiast/investor. Thanks for the great vid!
Glad you enjoyed it. Have an awesome weekend!
Awesome video!! As a football fan and an IT professional it's often overlooked of all the technical infrastructure it takes to run a football stadium.
Glad you liked it! Something a little bit different from our normal reviews.
That's what I'm expecting for such a long time, wonderful video!!
This is an awesome video! I would love to see more of this kind of thing!
Working on it!
Thanks for sharing.
You bet
You should see if you can tour Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
It's a little bit newer, but has two interesting features you might be interested in:
1) there is no copper networking in the entire building. Everything is end run as optical (and converted at the endpoint if needed).
2) the absolutely massive Halo scoreboard requires its own equally massive dedicated video processing system. And there are two of them for redundancy.
Super idea.
Very nice. Thanks for the tour.
i hope you make another video like this at another stadium this was great to watch!!
Great feedback. Working on a few similar videos later this year
Am somewhat keen to watch this tonight. Already am quite certain I shall learn something from it when I do.
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Awesome! Enjoy!
Pretty cool to see the infra to support a stadium
Yea! I was super jazzed to get to show this off
Hi Patrick! If it weren't for the big green space in the middle that looks a whole lot like a pre-cloud, pre-covid corperate headquarters. No snark, just a little wistful/ nostalgic about the network design. But then I remember one event center that would lose their mind about once a year about how their network equipment didn't work right, only to find out that every band, and show that came through seemed to have reconfigured the network. And they just didn't pay attention until the igmp tv receives stopped working again.
I remember that when Levi's was first announced, the team would emphasize the amount of technology that was going to go into it. That it would be the most advanced stadium at the
time. Makes sense considering the location.
Anyhow, great video, it's so cool seeing this perspective of a stadium that is never focused on. This would be a cool series, exploring the IT infrastructure of NFL stadiums. I wonder how the older places look. I'm just glad it started with my favorite team.
Yea I think that messaging has dwindled.
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@@ServeTheHomeVideo I wish I could also do this here in INDIA 🙂😉😂🤣
My team are on the other end of that for Game Pass International run from the UK at DAZN!
If you come to the UK, perhaps i can get someone to show you our facilities.
Oh wow! Super cool!
Question: Did you get a chance to show video of the types of machines they have in the racks? GPU, CPU, Clusters, etc?
Patrick coming to levis blessed us niners! We going to the superbowl!
Ha!
Definitely something I think about when I go to sporting events. I'm going to a Hockey game tonight, and my mind is going to be looking at the tech. Not really the players or the game.
Potentially one of the coolest vids you’ve made, I’m sure it was a blast to film as well.
Thanks! It was an awesome experience!
@@ServeTheHomeVideo I know they were super busy but the nerd in me wanted more detail! Like do the concession stands run on their own VM within the servers for displays and/or POSs? The hardware on the client side would be cool to learn more about, too. All in all, very great vid that left me wanting more.
Lets go 59ers!!!! 👍🏻
What surprises me, but shouldn't, is how many computers it takes to run a business.
I am in IT monitoring, so I should have an idea, but when I convert numbers in reports to actual hardware, I am still amazed.
Woah this is so cool!
What a neat get for STH!
Yea, this was a ton of fun to do.
Very good video!
Glad you liked it!
Peep that classic Mac Pro!!
Wow, amazing video. Definitely makes me think of stadiums differently. Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Have a great weekned
RIP Brocade. Sad they didn't get a call out in the video.
I’ve worked in a data center for a stint. Most companies don’t want you to know what they have in their data centers. I’m sure the stadium is no different.
I thought no one could make me care about a stadium
Honestly I find the infrastructure more interesting than the sports itself.
Just have a think. The computing power of multiple building sized computers from 60+ years ago is now in our personal hand held devices. Now look to 60+ years from now and brain chips will have all of the computing power of this place.
One funny thing is as you were talking about Xeons at 3:10 there were two rack mounted max studios on screen. Wonder what those get used for.
Hi, at first it looks incredible, but to handle all that you enumerate it is needed - impressive installations.
Go '9ers! I don't care about football, but I enjoy your enthusiasm
Interesting to see an old cheese grater style Mac Pro tower in the racks. Seen at 1:11
Lots of stuff in there!
I'm curious what they use the Mac Pro for. With all that equipment and a sky high budget; it's gotta be something interesting.@@ServeTheHomeVideo
I'd pay for a ticket, just to go see the datacenter and infrastructure.
New offseason business idea right there!
Well... I thought wed get dome specifics on what is in the data center and whats used for what. This rewds like one of my high school essays where I repeated points to hit the word count.
I've been at that press area on several stadium tours and one of the things they mention is that you're not allowed to cheer for the team, which means that would be a no go for me. Can't get a job in media just for free tickets...
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How much power is consumed? Is this still on or only on games? So many questions! Can they run on raspberry pies? 😅
Less than for the lights I would imagine.
What speed internet connection does something this size require?
I see that they didn't go with Cloud Computing.
Somewhat has to be on-site for a lot of the apps (e.g. the 5G/4G antenna arrays)
Definitely would be interesting to see how a football stadium compares to baseball or hockey or basketball or soccer
Is the XFL still a thing?
I agree. XFL just merged with the USFL for the new UFL
Pedantry time: since NFL is pronounced letter-by-letter (an initialism but not an acronym), it's "an NFL" not "a NFL".
all i learned from this video is they have network racks in a data center housed in the stadium, with cabling ran throughout for different services... no details about any of it. I dont want to sound mean, but considering your channel gets in depth about IT and networking gear.. this was insanely bland. What type of AP's did they run? What's the network switching looking like? Maybe go back when you can actually get information. with that being said, bang bang niner gang. :D
They have equipment with things that run applications, all of it connected with cables.
Before i started my work experience. I never truly understood the scale of enterprise. But after you see thousands of computers in ad, using boxes that 1000 usd laptops came in as TRASHCANS, seing a work experience guy being trusted with 100k usd worth of cameras alone.
There is a point where you just see the true scale of large companies (well, this company is on the wig-20 [basically one of the top 20 companies in poland], so it is huge)
I heard astronauts describe the "overview effect," and even if this is simply hyperbole, i found my experience there similar to their description
GO LIONS!
This just makes me want to go back to servers after moving to mini pcs from servers. My electricity bill will go up and down quicker than a street walkers knickers.
I’m surprised to see unifi gear in there
Bandwagon Niner fan spotted
Executive huddle? As opposed to a Slack huddle?
I wonder how much people tracking is going on too
very subliminal space like
Disappointed, I expected more technical details...
Old Mac Pro at 1:23 😢
All kinds of gear in there
Bang, Bang, Niner Gang!!!
GO LIONS! :P
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You should go tour the infrastructure at The Sphere. Really!
What hypervisor do they run?
Likely a lot of it is bare iron, duplicated as needed. There's no room for an extra nanosecond of latency at that performance level. Where possible, sure, the flexible management of VM is useful, but full speed non-stop operation is king here.
Neat
Very neat
@@ServeTheHomeVideo very yes!
At least the huge arrow is not red.
As a Lions fan, I'm going to have to report this video.
GO NINERS!!!
Challenge, how many times you can say “data center” in a single video.
How many times does he say.... "a ton"?
Go Niners!!!
Boom!
Go Niners!!
Exactly
What are these servers doing during the off season?
There is no offseason. The stadium hosts plenty of concerts & shows where the same resources are needed
@@asternSF That makes a lot of sense. Thankyou.
"Equipment we've never seen anywhere else". Doesn't elaborate. Leaves.
edit: must be Intel competition so can't mention it in their #AD
Who wrote this script?
Drink everytime he sais datacenter
Always a good game
Would have been interesting to see how they stay on top of energy use, hate to think all that stuff is running all of the time.
It definitely is
Too bad they are gonna lose to the chiefs ;) Jokes aside, that is seriously awesome!
Not sure I can like this comment :)
@ServeTheHomeVideo haha thats fair, i am from Patrick Mahomes home town, so gotta be biased a little lol. And i'm a Patrick as well. 😁
You know the infrastructure i wanna see is the sphere in Vegas, i bet that is interesting for sure
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Why do public places still bother with WiFi when everyone and their mum has 4G or 5G? Wouldn't they be better off using the WiFi just for business purposes and letting telecom operators put their 5G stuff in the stadium?
They definitely have 4G/5G cells in these large stadiums.
2 min worth of content stretched out to 11 by repeating that same exact thing over and over and over.
I really hate to admit this, but you’re 100% right. The same 3 shots were used over and over again
Yeah gotta get that monetized
Kinda of a strange one, but wish more different b-roll of different scenes but longer. Next time
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With zero detail about what they are actually running
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This is NOT a data center tour video. I'm quite disappointed.
As someone who built and managed data centers for large companies, I can tell you for a fact that this data center is an obsilute overkill, one row, 3-4 cabinets, is more than enough to provide all the mentioned services, even then it would be an overkill.
It seems intel has been dumping servers on them in a sponsorship agreement for all the signs they get to stick all over the stadium.
I think they can save alot of money from electricity cost and the cost of owning and maintaining the supporting infrastructure such as power, cooling, core network etc... and intel can keep dumping servers on them which can donate or sell for extra savings.
I'm sure their "main" business would fit in just a few cabinets. This is more than that, it's an entire small city's worth of cell towers condensed into one area. There's also equipment for probably 100 cutting edge cameras and video processing which I'm sure takes up a few more racks. If it was just a sponsorship agreement it wouldn't matter how much equipment they had because nobody would ever see it.
@eDoc2020 I worked in Telcom; this number of cabinets can contain a GSM operator's main site that servers 20+ Million connected customers. Not to mention that GSM is inifinately more complex than just wifi internet service, from data center point of view.
And for the cameras, that could be an explanation but not a satisfying one. If it is true, then they must be using unaccelerated CPUs to handle that many cameras, which would be absurd.
Really nice to see a self sufficient IT operation, rather than in the clown.