Cox Business is powering the temporary media center for the presidential debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Oct. 19. Cox will provide telephone service, a backup Internet connection, and cable and broadcast channels in the Cox Pavilion indoor arena at the media center. Services will also be provided to the adjacent 18,000-seat Thomas & Mack Center, site of the presidential debate, and Mendenhall Center, a basketball practice facility attached to the Cox Pavilion to be used for food service.
Cox has installed 500 lines of digital telephone service at the Thomas & Mack Center, Cox Pavilion, Mendenhall Center and outside media trailers. The service will be provided through Cox Business IP Centrex, a cloud-based hosted telephone system. Cox Business is also providing UNLV with a temporary, redundant 10 Gbps fiber-optic connection.
Cox has provided video services to UNLV for nearly 20 years and was recently selected to expand the campus' WiFi network to include 3,258 access points.