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Super Bowl & Social Media | Why you won't have problems posting online at the Benz

The Benz offers WiFi unlike any other stadium.

It happens generally when you go to a concert or any event with a large population -- you try to post your videos to social media and you just can't.

There are too many people using the bandwidth.

That won't happen at the Mercedes Benz Stadium.

"People come to an event and they want to share it with their social platforms," said Steve Cannon. the CEO of Arthur Blanks Sports Entertainment Company. "Well if you don't have the bandwidth to do that, all you're gonna have is frustrated fans."

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The Benz offers WiFi and bandwidth, unlike any other stadium. 

"So when we made the decision to build the stadium, we decided to be fully fiber optic," he said. "More than four thousand miles of fiber optic cable run through this building. Which essentially allows us unlimited bandwidth."

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"70, 000 people could simultaneously live stream and push out through our WiFi their pictures or that live video through their social streams."

It's happened before. Atlanta set a record during last year's national championship game for college football.

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"12 terabytes of data went up and down through our WiFi, which is just an incredible number," he said. 

That's how much data is used by Twitter across the globe in a single day. 

"Fan behavior has forever changed. If you think people aren't going to be using their phones in your building, you're probably missing the boat a little bit."

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