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Cory Davis, director of public safety operations for Verizon, returns to the podcast while on site at Verizon's network-monitoring command center in SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, California. Davis and the Verizon Frontline team are gearing up for Super Bowl LVI; the service provider has been preparing for two years for this Super Bowl, investing $119 million in and around SoFi Stadium.


\"We look at the [command center] like a football team, we have an offense, defense and special teams,\" says Davis. \"The goal is to keep our network at 100% to the best of our ability and respond very quickly to anything that happens.\"


Verizon has an on-call team on site working with federal, state and local agencies to boost network capacity if needed.


Davis also provides a tour of Verizon's Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response (THOR) unit, which is a 5G disaster response prototype vehicle. For more on THOR, check out this previous podcast with Davis.


Here are just a few things covered in this podcast episode:


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