Each of the 29 arenas (the NBA has 30 teams, but the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings both call the Staples Center home) will be hooked up to “two diversely routed 100G fiber circuits” that will bump up network bandwidth tenfold. Doubling up should mitigate technical difficulties and help make sure you don’t miss any of the action. Verizon will connect the arenas to its hubs in Newark and Atlanta, while an operations center in Dulles, VA will monitor video traffic quality and data during games.

It’ll be a significant undertaking for Verizon to build out this network. It’s a little strange on the surface that the best resolution promised in the announcement is 1080p when 4K is increasingly becoming the standard. However, that might be more down to a 4K production equipment availability than Verizon’s network capacity.