Investing in NOLA for the long run
From businesses small and large in New Orleans, to working hand-in-hand with public safety, Verizon’s commitment to New Orleans will last well after the Super Bowl is over.
For the past three years, Verizon has been focused on providing the most reliable network experience in NOLA for our customers, making significant investments that nearly triple New Orleans’ network capacity. Verizon laid out more than 560 miles of fiber in the Greater New Orleans area, which is enough fiber to wrap around the outside of the Caesars Superdome 869 times.
Verizon added unmatched large capacity connections across the city and at the most congested areas in New Orleans, including Bourbon Street, the New Orleans Convention Center, Louis Armstrong International Airport, Smoothie King Arena, Woldenberg Park, and Jackson Square. This means that when even the largest crowds were gathered, customers had the gold-star network experience they expect from Verizon.
At Caesars Superdome, Verizon delivered an exceptional network experience so fans could capture and share every moment. Verizon’s engineers worked tirelessly to add enough coverage and capacity to cover a small city, deploying 511 5G UltraWideband and 155 C-band radios covering the stadium’s seating areas, back of the house, suites, lounges, press box, concourse areas and entry ways.
Before, during and after this year’s big game, Verizon Frontline helped keep first responders connected by working to ensure they had the mission-critical communications assets they needed to achieve their mission. At the Big Game, one of the ways this was accomplished was through the Verizon Command Center, which was staffed by technicians and engineers who monitored and managed, around the clock, everywhere the Verizon network touched throughout New Orleans and the surrounding communities.
Members of the Verizon Frontline team also staffed joint Emergency Operations Centers, sitting side-by-side with federal, state and local agencies to help ensure they had the technology, information and network support they needed.
Preparing for well over two years, the Verizon Frontline team, in close coordination with many of these agencies, remained ready to help keep first responders in New Orleans connected from the field to the front lines.
“We’ve done a lot of work…to make sure our first responders have the critical communications they need so that fans have the best possible Super Bowl experience,” said Maggie Hallbach, Senior Vice President of Verizon Public Sector and President of Verizon Frontline.
Verizon Frontline is the advanced network and technology built for first responders – developed over three decades of partnership with public safety officials and agencies – to meet their unique and evolving needs.
Verizon Innovative Learning has committed over $1 billion in market value to support digital equity, skill-building and confidence within education and has reached nearly eight million students nationwide, including over 4,700 students in New Orleans.
Across New Orleans, seven schools participate in the Verizon Innovative
Learning Schools program, which equips students and teachers with free technology, internet access and innovative STEM learning.
Additionally, Dillard University is one of 44 colleges hosting the Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers program, a free STEM program for middle school students.
Donna EppsChief Responsible Business OfficerVerizon
