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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

• 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

• 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• 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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Games/Accom Sites:

•Standardisation Process

•LANs

•WAN

•Application hosting

•Backup

Other Sites:

•Host Town Medical

•Park House

•WAN

•Application hosting

•Backup

Network – “They want it Where”

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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)

Oce Printer/fax

RouterComputer

Computer

PSTN

128 Kbs ISDN

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Type D (very common)

Oce Printer/fax

RouterComputer

Computer

PSTN

128 Kbs ISDN

256 kbs

Computer

Computer

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Type E – Unusual

Hub512 kbs Leased LIne

Oce Printer/fax

Router

Computer

Computer

Computer

Computer

PSTN

Computer

Computer

Computer

Computer

2nd printer / faxwhere needed

PSTN ?

business IP N etw ork

Internet

STM-1 ATM

ISDN

3 x PRA

PRA

Park House Hub Site

3640A

3640 Existing

1601 Existing

PE Crown Alley

PE Beggars Bush

1721

ALSAA

PE Belcamp

1721

Athletic Union LeagueClonsaugh

1601 Existing 640K ISDN backupCosted

UCD Belfield

1721

David Lloyd Riverview

PE Blanch

Elm Green Golf Centre

ESB Arena Tallaght

PE City West

Glenville P&POldbawn Tallaght 803

PE Belfast1721

Kings HallBelfast

Morton Stadium

Leisureplex Blanchardstown

1721

1601

National BadmintonBaldoyle

1721

National Show Centre Cloghran

1721

STM-1 ATM

2M LL

512K LL

256 K LL

ISDN 128K

ISDN 256K

Legend

DCU

1721

Phoenix Pk

1721Great SouthernHotelDublin Airport

1721

1M LL

DublinCastle

Croke Pk

1721

1721

1721

Bonsecours Hospital

1721

Royal St GeorgesYacht Club

Iona Technologies Backup Site

RDS Simmons Court

National Collegeof Ireland Rathmines

RDS Main Hall

172116031721

3640A

1721

Navan Rd

2003 World Games Data NetworkSheet 1

business IP N etw ork

Internet

ISDN

3 x PRA

Park House Hub Site

3640A

3640 Existing

1601 Existing

PE Crown Alley

PE Beggars Bush

PE Belcamp

PE Blanch

PE City West

PE Naas

PE Bray

STM-1 ATM

2M LL

512K LL

256 K LL

ISDN 128K

ISDN 256K

Legend

1M LL

Iona Technologies Backup Site

3640A

PE Drogheda

2003 World Games Data NetworkSheet 2

City West Hotel

Kings Hospital

Maynooth NUI (NTH)

Maynooth NUI (STH)

1721

1721

1721

St Marys PhoenixPark

Eastpoint Business Park

Sports Link Santry

1721

Salmon Leap

ESB Arena Tallaght

1721

1721

1721

1721

Loughlinstown Leisure Centre

1721

Kill EquestrianCentre

Mosney

1721

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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 theCitrix farm.

I try to connect to a server:Do DNS Lookup.

Can I see ParkHouse DNS?

Yes.SuccessfulResponse.All is well.

Retry Park HouseDNS.

Yes.SuccessfulResponse.All is well.

Go To TertiaryDNS Server

(IONA)

DNS Response fromSecondary 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