Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Games Network Overview Tiarnán de Burca Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie Tdeburca (at) 2003worldgames dot com

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ days to go

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ What is Special Olympics? A year round sports training and competition program Children and adults With a learning disability

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Special Olympics Ireland 32 counties Schools, clubs, individuals 11 Sports – summer and winter 12,000 members 37,000 people with learning difficulty

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ World Games 160 countries 21 sports 30,000 volunteers 7,000 athletes 2,000 volunteer coaches 28,000 family members 2,000 international media

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Languages at 2003 World Games 6 official languages English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin Chinese 52 languages to cover 160 delegations

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Technology Numbers 600 Games PC’s 48 Site WAN 248 of 270 Volunteers Recruited 7 Networking \ Applications Staff

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ MONEY – Doing this in a downturn. Basically we couldn’t do it without industry support, and here is that industry support.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Premier Sponsor

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Largest International Sporting Event in the World in 2003

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ When? 16 th -20 th June: Host Town Programme 21 st June: Opening Ceremony 29 th June: Closing Ceremony

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ They want WHAT! What Services are we to provide? Where are they to be provided?

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Applications – The Services. GMS - (Games Management System) VMS – (Volunteer Management System) Health One Miscellaneous Small Applications These will be deployed using Citrix Metaframe.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ 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”

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Where to begin? So Much to do so little time.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Standardisation : Standardisation process worked well in Site types for this year 8 sites are considered exceptions and have been designed individually

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ 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

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ 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

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ 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.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ 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

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Site Types

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Type C (only used twice)

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Type D (very common)

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Type E – Unusual

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 Network Sheet 2 City West Hotel Kings Hospital Maynooth NUI (NTH) Maynooth NUI (STH) 1721 St Marys Phoenix Park Eastpoint Business Park Sports Link Santry 1721 Salmon Leap ESB Arena Tallaght 1721 Loughlinstown Leisure Centre 1721 Kill Equestrian Centre Mosney 1721

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Failover What type of “Disaster” we are prepared for? Line Outages System Failures

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Network Outage. How will the data know which path to take? Combination of Routing and DNS.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Network Preference BIP To Park House ISDN To Park House BIP To Iona

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Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Conclusion KEEP IT SIMPLE When you think you’ve done enough testing, do more. Ask For Help. It will come.

Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games /01/ Call To Arms: Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie