{"id":428738,"date":"2026-08-10T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428738\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:08:30","slug":"what-the-san-diego-padres-cio-does-to-deliver-major-league-it-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428738\/","title":{"rendered":"What the San Diego Padres CIO does to deliver major league IT experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first major shift came with deploying a full-venue managed distributed antenna system (DAS) from Verizon, and an Extreme Networks Wi-Fi solution, providing fans, staff, and baseball operations with reliable connectivity throughout the ballpark. That network has since become the converged backbone for almost everything that happens at Petco, including digital ticket entry via the MLB Ballpark app, security and operations, tech like instant replay and dugout tablets used by coaches and players, and in\u2011venue IPTV and signage, all riding on the same IP infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fans, the network is invisible. For Chan\u2019s team, it\u2019s non\u2011negotiable. \u201cNone of this stuff works without the infrastructure in place,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Consolidated convenience<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Padres have leaned heavily into the league-standard MLB Ballpark app, which provides a consistent digital experience across all 30 venues, while allowing clubs to customize the local section. At Petco specifically, that app becomes the fan\u2019s control center for digital ticketing, ballpark navigation, and a built-in payments and discount wallets tied to offers like Padres Pay and contactless options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first major shift came with deploying a full-venue managed distributed antenna system (DAS) from Verizon, and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-428738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}