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NFL's IT Chief Gears Up For His 25th Super Bowl
BobB-nw writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld:
"NFL IT guru David Port claims he doesn't have a favorite football team, but on Sunday he'll be working his 25th Super Bowl. As the league's vice president of information technology, Port and his IT staff are responsible for building a temporary network to support NFL staff and thousands of journalists during Super Bowl week. Port starts preparing for each Super Bowl two years in advance, working with the city and venues where IT operations and media professionals will be based. More intensive planning starts about 11 months before the big game. Port explained that the NFL essentially built a small data center with IBM blade servers at the temporary headquarters in a local Marriott near the Super Bowl site. 'We built out an infrastructure with approximately 300 computers, PCs and laptops, and wired and wireless networks that are used for NFL core operations, for game production and business operations. Much of it is also for media,' Port said."
CNet is running a related story about the technology behind the Super Bowl, focusing on some of the visual effects viewers will see, as well as the hardware that makes everything happen.
Looks like in the U.S. nobody ready embrace the true g33k sport yet.
The MLS Cup, U.S. Open Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA EURO, and FIFA World Cup deserve far more greater respect.
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I'm sure Dave is a great guy and Dave has a job unlike many of us. As far as the Superbowl and the NFL it sucks! The sport sucks, the media coverage sucks, the sports commentators that never shut up and talk about stupid stuff suck. The amount of money they waste of this whole event sucks. The amount of money dumb ass morons who run, throw and catch the ball sucks! In fact there is nothing about NFL that is good anymore.... hasn't been for a very long time.