Phoenix Convention Center awards contract for technology services to Smart City Networks

July 16, 2012 - PRLog -- LAS VEGAS – Smart City Networks announced that it has been awarded the contract to provide client technology and telecommunication services at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz., for the next 5 years. Beginning this month, Smart City Networks will maintain the convention center’s phone system, wired and wireless Internet networks and cable television service.

As the facility’s new technology service partner, Smart City installed a brand new Cisco wired and wireless Internet system and added 225 new access points within the facilities meeting rooms, ballrooms, and exhibit halls.  

“We are excited to work with the Phoenix Convention Center and are honored that the Phoenix City Council selected us as its telecommunication and technology service provider,” said Mark Haley, president of Smart City Networks. “As events and attendees are becoming increasingly more tech-savvy, we look forward to the opportunity to raise the profile of the Phoenix Convention Center as a leading high-tech facility.”

“The Phoenix Convention Center is pleased to partner with Smart City Networks,” stated Debbie Cotton, director of the Phoenix Convention Center. “Smart City’s technical expertise and customer service will greatly benefit everyone who visits the Phoenix Convention Center.”

Using the latest technology, Smart City will also provide the facility with high-speed Internet access using Ethernet protocols as well as offering turnkey data networking services, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and private networks.  


About Smart City Networks
Founded in 1984, Smart City Networks is the nation’s largest provider of event technology in the convention industry. With corporate headquarters in Las Vegas, Nev., Smart City Networks provides clients with design, installation and maintenance of data, voice, electrical and utility platforms, coupled with unparalleled voice, video and data network engineering, security and monitoring across the United States. Smart City Networks also provides services to more than 5,000 trade shows at more than 35 convention centers located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and the District of Columbia. For more information about Smart City Networks, please call 702-943-6000 or visit http://www.smartcitynetworks.com.