Providing 24x7 uptime is critical for all the businesses, but for the football team, it’s particularly important on game day. “But it’s not just football, so you can understand the logistics and challenges we have trying to keep everything running.” Inside the Data Center “We support the football club, the cheerleaders, the scouting and medical staff, as well as the concession stands and the merchandise stores,” Walsh says. That’s a total of 400 employees, including real estate developments, two MRI centers, oil and gas companies and 35 pro shops that sell team apparel and other merchandise. The new data center supports not only the team’s operations but team owner Jerry Jones’ 30-plus companies in more than 90 locations. The team also installed 185 IP security cameras to safeguard the facility. The team built a high-speed communications network with Cisco Systems equipment that includes Wi-Fi, IP phones and an IP television system that will broadcast content to 2,900 flat-screen Sony televisions throughout the stadium, showing live game footage, advertising and menus at the concession stands. Since February, Cowboys CIO Pete Walsh and his team of 11 IT staffers have raced to install the IT infrastructure in the new stadium, which includes a new data center with 127 Hewlett-Packard blade servers and a new 100 terabyte storage area network (SAN) using HP’s StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array systems. You get a great view of the game whether you’re looking on the field or at the video boards,” says Scott Purcel, the Cowboys’ broadcasting director. “What makes these video boards unique is there’s no bad seat in the house. Two large end-zone video boards are also attached to the roof, giving every fan access to live game footage as well as instant replays and pre- and post-game shows that feature interviews with players and coaches. Two video screens facing the sidelines are 70 feet tall and 60 yards in length, spanning the field from one 20-yard line to the other. The new home for the storied football franchise is an architectural marvel that features bleeding-edge technology to give fans the best experience possible, including the world’s largest high-definition video board hanging from the roof above the 50-yard line.Įxplore the video case study and virtual stadium. Two steel arches that soar 320 feet above the playing field support a retractable roof that is the longest single-span roof structure in the world. The $1 billion-plus, 3.2-million-square-foot facility in Arlington, Texas, is the largest domed stadium in the NFL. If you don’t believe that everything is bigger in Texas, then take a look at the new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys.
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