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Arizona Cardinals Select Cisco IP Communications Solution for Training Complex and New State-of-the-Art Stadium; IT Solutions Provider Insight Works with Cardinals and Cisco to Take Technology to a New Level in Professional Football.


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    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. In 2006, the club began playing all home games at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, a suburb west of Phoenix.
     and Insight are teaming up to run a Cisco IP Communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony.  system throughout their training facility in Tempe and their new football stadium, scheduled to open in 2006.

    The solution, implemented and managed by information technology (IT) solutions provider Insight, will benefit fans, players and staff, providing conveniences unmatched by those at any other National Football League stadium. Approximately 750 Cisco IP phones will be utilized at the new Cardinals stadium, which will open in August of next year.

    In July, Insight enabled the Cardinals' Tempe, Arizona Tempe (pronounced /tɛm.'piː/) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a population of 169,712 according to 2006 Census Bureau estimates.  training center with seamless voice, data and video communications. Digital video technology operating from the converged network will allow team members to participate, via video, in real-time training sessions from both the stadium and their Tempe training facility simultaneously, which brings a new dimension to the process of game preparation. Video-enabled Cisco IP phones for executives will facilitate video conferencing and staff at both facilities will be able to send data, game film and marketing materials from one facility to the other, saving time and operational expenses. The systems at both facilities will be fully linked, fully integrated and fully redundant.

    In the new stadium, Cisco IP phones with touch-screen LCDs in the stadium suites will allow fans to pick players off of a virtual roster during a game to engage in a fantasy football game. Using the phone's touch-tone color screen, fans will also be able to buy tickets for future games, shop at the Cardinals' online store, order food and beverages and pull up football statistics.

    Insight will also be implementing a wireless network into the new stadium, giving the facility the capability to support virtually every form of wireless communication available. This wireless infrastructure will facilitate uninterrupted cell phone usage and wireless Internet access within the stadium, giving fans with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops and PDAs the ability to enjoy fantasy football and surf the Internet during games.

    "The Cisco IP Communications solution, along with Insight's IT infrastructure, gives us flexibility that we didn't have in the past," said Cardinals Vice President/General Counsel Michael Bidwill. "Since the technology is now entirely IP-based and software-driven, the stadium can be customized to meet the needs of multiple users. The field and the roof are both retractable re·tract  
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    , allowing for events such as tradeshows, conventions and conferences. This will make it one of the most versatile, multifunctional sports venues in the entire world."

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    About Insight

    Insight North America, Inc. ("Insight") is a leading provider of IT products and services to businesses, government and educational institutions in the United States and Canada. Insight's offerings span the entire IT lifecycle with more than 200,000 name-brand hardware, software and peripherals -- the largest selection in the industry -- along with a full line of services tailored to support the changing and unique needs of technology buyers. Insight is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

    A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

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     of Insight Enterprises, Inc., (Nasdaq:NSIT NSIT Networking Services and Information Technologies (University of Chicago)
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    ), ranked number 552 on Fortune Magazine's 2005 "Fortune 1000" list. For additional information call (480) 902-1001 or visit www.insight.com.
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