Case Study: MLB Network achieves scalable live content production and robust disaster recovery with CoreSite colocation

Why MLB Network teamed up with CoreSite to expand content production capabilities and support growth

MLB Network, the 24/7 cable channel launched in 2009, faced rapidly increasing demand to process and edit live video from dozens of ballparks, which strained its on-site storage, bandwidth and disaster-recovery capabilities. Building and managing a new data center would have been costly and time-consuming, yet the network required a low-latency, highly reliable offsite solution to keep live broadcasts on air without interruption.

MLB Network deployed cage colocation at CoreSite’s NY2 data center, leveraging hard-wired cross connects, redundant dark-fiber links, private office space and Remote Hands support to run parallel operations and enable fast server spin-up and failover. The move avoided large capital expenditures, expanded content production, storage and archiving capacity, improved network stability and disaster recovery, and positioned MLB Network for continued digital growth.

MLB Network

Tab Butler

Director, Media Management and Post Production