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Cab file - Linksys Supplies the Networking Hardware to Build the UltimateGaming Event - QuakeCon 2004QuakeCon's 2004 Gaming Tournament LANs Built Entirely on High PerformanceLinksys SwitchesIRVINE, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Linksys(R), a Division ofCisco Systems, Inc., the leading provider of broadband, wireless andnetworking hardware for the consumer and Small Office/Home Office(SOHO) markets, today announced it will supply all the networkinghardware to build the gaming network for the 2004 QuakeCon(TM) videogame festival and tournament in Grapevine, Texas, August 12 - 15,2004.Linksys will provide two-hundred 24-Port 10/100 Ethernet Switches withGigabit expansion slots and two-hundred Gigabit Ethernet Modules forgigabit connectivity to the network backbone. The Linksys switcheswill provide up to 4,600 connections for gamers to play their favoriteid titles against one another. Gamers from all over the world will becoming to play head-to-head gaming at this massive LAN party.This year's Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) gaming network is thelargest in the nation. With over 3,500 computers and servers,participants can bring their own computers and play games such as DOOM3(TM), QUAKE III Arena(TM), Return to Castle Wolfenstein(TM), EnemyTerritory(TM) and other games. Gamers who bring their own computersequipped with LAN cards simply plug into the switches which will beset on all the table tops in the BYOC area. The switches will be thegamer's link to the network operations center (NOC) in which they canplay well over 400 games hosted on the game servers simultaneously.QuakeCon's 2004 sponsors include id Software, NVIDIA, Activision, AMD,Chenbro, VIA and Linksys.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=43035873
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