1. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 1 2003 Games Network Overview Tiarnán de Burca Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie Tdeburca (at) 2003worldgames dot com

2. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 2 83 days to go

3. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 3 What is Special Olympics? A year round sports training and competition program Children and adults With a learning disability

4. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 4 Special Olympics Ireland 32 counties Schools, clubs, individuals 11 Sports – summer and winter 12,000 members 37,000 people with learning difficulty

5. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 5 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

6. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 6 Languages at 2003 World Games 6 official languages English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin Chinese 52 languages to cover 160 delegations

7. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 7 Technology Numbers 600 Games PC’s 48 Site WAN 248 of 270 Volunteers Recruited 7 Networking \ Applications Staff

8. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 8 MONEY – Doing this in a downturn. Basically we couldn’t do it without industry support, and here is that industry support.

9. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 9 Premier Sponsor

10. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 10 Largest International Sporting Event in the World in 2003

11. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 11 When? 16 th -20 th June: Host Town Programme 21 st June: Opening Ceremony 29 th June: Closing Ceremony

12. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 12 They want WHAT! What Services are we to provide? Where are they to be provided?

13. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 13 Applications – The Services. GMS - (Games Management System) VMS – (Volunteer Management System) Health One Miscellaneous Small Applications These will be deployed using Citrix Metaframe.

14. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 14 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”

15. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 15 Where to begin? So Much to do so little time.

16. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 16 Standardisation : Standardisation process worked well in 2002 5 Site types for this year 8 sites are considered exceptions and have been designed individually

17. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 17 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

18. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 18 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

19. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 19 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.

20. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 20 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

21. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 21 Site Types

22. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 22 Type C (only used twice)

23. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 23 Type D (very common)

24. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 24 Type E – Unusual

26. 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

27. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 27 Failover What type of “Disaster” we are prepared for? Line Outages System Failures

28. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 28 Network Outage. How will the data know which path to take? Combination of Routing and DNS.

29. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 29 Network Preference BIP To Park House ISDN To Park House BIP To Iona

30. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 30

31. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 31 Conclusion KEEP IT SIMPLE When you think you’ve done enough testing, do more. Ask For Help. It will come.

32. Special Olympics Technology Functional Area – World Games 200314/01/2003 32 Call To Arms: Usal (at) redbrick dot dcu dot ie