Transcript 6 Languages at 2003 World Games - Redbrick

2003 Games Network Overview
Tiarnán de Burca
Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie
Tdeburca (at) 2003worldgames dot com
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•83 days to go
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What is Special Olympics?
• A year round sports training and
competition program
• Children and adults
• With a learning disability
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Special Olympics Ireland
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32 counties
Schools, clubs, individuals
11 Sports – summer and winter
12,000 members
37,000 people with learning difficulty
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2003 World Games
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160 countries
21 sports
30,000 volunteers
7,000 athletes
2,000 volunteer coaches
28,000 family members
2,000 international media
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Languages at 2003 World
Games
• 6 official languages
• English, French, Spanish, Arabic,
Russian, Mandarin Chinese
• 52 languages to cover 160
delegations
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Technology Numbers
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600 Games PC’s
48 Site WAN
248 of 270 Volunteers Recruited
7 Networking \ Applications Staff
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MONEY – Doing this in a downturn.
Basically we couldn’t do it without
industry support, and here is that
industry support.
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Premier Sponsor
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Largest International Sporting Event
in the World in 2003
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When?
• 16th -20th June: Host Town
Programme
• 21st June: Opening Ceremony
• 29th June: Closing Ceremony
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They want WHAT!
• What Services are we to provide?
• Where are they to be provided?
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Applications – The Services.
GMS - (Games Management System)
VMS – (Volunteer Management System)
Health One
Miscellaneous Small Applications
These will be deployed using Citrix Metaframe.
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Network – “They want it Where”
Games/Accom Sites:
Other Sites:
•Standardisation Process
•Host Town Medical
•LANs
•Park House
•WAN
•WAN
•Application hosting
•Application hosting
•Backup
•Backup
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Where to begin?
• So Much to do so little time.
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Standardisation :
Standardisation process worked well in
2002
5 Site types for this year
8 sites are considered exceptions and have
been designed individually
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Network Overview - WAN
Connectivity will be by :
Eircom BIP connection to hub sites at most
venues
Backup via leased line or ISDN to hub sites
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Eircom BIP?
Eircom BIP is an MPLS/IP VPN network.
All connections are to the “cloud”
We then connect hub sites to the cloud via
high speed lines
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Network Overview - LAN
Standard sites:
Standard sites will have simple single switch
LANs
Non Standard sites:
A variety of technologies will be used
including ADSL, LRE, Coax, Fibre.
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Network Overview - Backups
Most sites will have backup capacity of at
least 50%
Traffic shaping will be used to ensure that in
failover situation critical traffic gets
through.
Hot DR site for loss of Park House
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Site Types
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Type C (only used twice)
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Type D (very common)
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Type E – Unusual
PSTN ?
Computer
Computer
Computer
2nd printer / fax
where needed
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Computer
Hub
Router
Computer
512 kbs Leased LIne
PSTN
Computer
Oce Printer/fax
Computer
Computer
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Glenville P&P
Oldbawn Tallaght
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2003 World Games Data Network
Sheet 1
Park House Hub Site
Internet
3640A
3 x PRA
1601 Existing
3640 Existing
Navan Rd
ISDN
DCU
1721
PRA
Phoenix Pk
STM-1 ATM
1721
Great SouthernHotel
Dublin Airport
Dublin
Castle
1721
1721
PE Crown Alley
ALSAA
Croke Pk
1721
1721
PE Belcamp
Athletic Union League
Clonsaugh
business IP Network
1721
1721
PE Belfast
Kings Hall
Belfast
PE Blanch
David Lloyd Riverview
PE City West
1721
1721
PE Beggars Bush
Bonsecours
Hospital
Morton Stadium
1721
1721
Royal St Georges
Yacht Club
National Badminton
Baldoyle
1721
ESB Arena Tallaght
Legend
Elm Green Golf Centre
1601 Existing 640K
ISDN backup
Costed
1721
Leisureplex
Blanchardstown
3640A
1603
1721
1721
1601
National Show Centre
Cloghran
Iona Technologies
Backup Site
UCD Belfield
RDS Simmons
Court
RDS Main
Hall
1721
National College
of Ireland Rathmines
STM-1 ATM
2M LL
1M LL
512K LL
256 K LL
ISDN 256K
ISDN 128K
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Sheet 2
Park House Hub Site
Internet
3640A
3 x PRA
1601 Existing
3640 Existing
ISDN
St Marys Phoenix
Park
Eastpoint Business Park
PE Crown Alley
Sports Link
Santry
1721
1721
PE Belcamp
PE Bray
business IP Network
Loughlinstown Leisure
Centre
1721
ESB Arena Tallaght
PE Blanch
Maynooth NUI (STH)
PE City West
1721
PE Naas
PE Beggars Bush
PE Drogheda
Maynooth NUI (NTH)
1721
Salmon Leap
1721
City West Hotel
1721
1721
Kings Hospital
1721
Kill Equestrian
Centre
Legend
3640A
1721
Mosney
Iona Technologies
Backup Site
STM-1 ATM
2M LL
1M LL
512K LL
256 K LL
ISDN 256K
ISDN 128K
Failover
• What type of “Disaster” we are prepared
for?
Line Outages
System Failures
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Network Outage.
How will the data know which path to take?
Combination of Routing and DNS.
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Network Preference
BIP To Park House
ISDN To Park House
BIP To Iona
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I Want To connect To the
Citrix farm.
I try to connect to a server:
Do DNS Lookup.
Can I see Park
House DNS?
Retry Park House
DNS.
Go To Tertiary
DNS Server
(IONA)
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Yes.
Successful
Response.
All is well.
Yes.
Successful
Response.
All is well.
DNS Response from
Secondary Site
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Conclusion
• KEEP IT SIMPLE
• When you think you’ve done enough
testing, do more.
• Ask For Help. It will come.
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Call To Arms:
Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie
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