Tokyo.Disney.Net

Steve Nakhla writes: "I came across this article detailing how the Walt Disney Company is using ONLY gigabit ethernet in its new Japanese park, Tokyo DisneySeas. Previously, a combination of ethernet, ATM, and others were utilizied to create the network backbone in Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It's an interesting look at how the "magic" is created. For example, using CobraNet's technology, they are able to stream audio out to speakers with no loss of sound quality, while keeping the control rooms in a centralized location remote to the area."

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Off Site Control Room

[Flounder]

This is probably the best thing they could do. Imagine being a support tech in that datacenter, with the hum of the equipment being drowned out by It's a Small World in Japanese. Gives me seizures just thinking about it.

should be good...

[cheezus]

... so long as they don't do a mickey mouse job.

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Good idea.

[SpanishInquisition]

while keeping the control rooms in a centralized location remote to the area

That way the owners can escape easily when all the robots have a malfunction and start killing everyone.
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Re:Loop-the-loop on WinNT? No.

[tabacco]

Unless the ride includes on-train brakes (sort of unusual), NT can't possibly do a thing to the train in mid-loop. Roller Coasters are called that because that's what they do: coast. There's a big drop at the beginning of coasters to give the train sufficient momentum to make it through the rest of the ride aided/hindered only by gravity. Certain types of them, though, include trim brakes (usually Wild Mouse coasters, which don't have loops) to keep the train's speed in check on really tight turns. The worst that could happen here is an E-Stop, which would brake all the cars on the ride, causing minor annoyance but not a lot of actual trouble.

Try this at home?

[sulli]

Was I the only one intrigued by Disney's use of Ethernet to connect speakers to the audio server? Now admittedly they're using GigE most of the way, but wouldn't it be possible to create a series of cheap devices to connect speakers to a jukebox via FastE (or even better, 802.11) so one can have them all over the house?

Just wondering if there's stuff in the market that's cheap and does this via ethernet. (Obviously the Enterprise Class QoS-Enabled Solutions described by the ITWorld writer aren't, but that's because they need to sell ads.)

With bandwidth like that...

[JWhitlock]

When I was a kid, we didn't have cable at home. Half the fun of family vacations was watching cable TV - MTV, TNT, a movie playing all the time. We'd travel hundreds of miles, then me and my siblings would want to stay in the hotel room and watch TV.

Now, when I go to Disney World with my kids ten years from now, they won't want to leave the hotel room. "But Dad, I have a latency of 0! ZERO!!!! I'm fragging all my friends back home! Who wants to ride stupid roller coasters, anyway."

They've also incorporated CMU tech...

[MeowMeow Jones]

>finger waltdisneysbrain@tokyo.disney.net

[tokyo.disney.net]
[waltdisneysbrain@tokyo.disney.net

Login name: waltdisneysbrain

Plan:
Current Temperature: 37 Kelvin
Time until re-animation: 4763 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes, 12.27732323 seconds.

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No tomorrowland

[infinite9]

It looks like the network in the new park is more advanced than the technology in the Future World part of EPCOT. BTW: I used to work for disney. I once went to the underground cafeteria in the magic kingdom in orlando and saw the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life: Snow White sitting on her boyfriend's lap smoking a cigarette.