D-Link Networks The Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships in Dallas, Texas with Gigabit Speeds
D-Link Ensures No Lag for Top Gamers
D-Link sponsored networking hardware to support the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, between July 6th-10th 2005. The Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships is expected to attract over 7,000 gamers from 60 different countries. The exhibition halls span over 120,000 square feet and the BYOC area will accommodate over 1700 computers.
D-Link is proud to provide the serious power needed for zero lag network connections for the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships to be used in six computer game tournaments with $220,000 in cash prizes, and the 1700 Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) area. In addition to hosting six gaming tournaments, the event will also host the only North American stop for the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour. The World Tour competition game is Painkiller and the qualifier will offer $50,000 in cash prizes. Other event attractions include an 58,000 square feet of exhibitor booths, a spectator arena, workshops, and more. For more details see the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championship website at http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/.
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| The D-Link xStack DGS-3324SR Multilayer Switch provides a high-performance backbone for a 550+ seat LAN |
D-Link will provide managed, stackable, award winning, DGS-3324SR multi-layer Ethernet switches as the backbone, as well as the DES-3226L managed Layer 2 switch model, and DES-3526 managed Layer 2 switch model delivering a gigabit-speed backbone to ensure seamless connectivity for competitors throughout the 5-day event. The BYOC will also feature a 200 seat gigabit area where gamers will take full advantage of gigabit speeds while hooked up directly to a D-Link DGS-3024 24-port managed gigabit switch. The official games are PC-based versions of: Painkiller, Counter-Strike Source, Counter-Strike 1.6, Day of Defeat, Warcraft 3 and Halo 2 on Xbox.
