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Posted by michael on from the somebody-ping-Mickey,-he's-not-responding dept.

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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  1. Off Site Control Room by Flounder · · Score: 5

    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.

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  2. should be good... by cheezus · · Score: 5
    ... so long as they don't do a mickey mouse job.

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  3. Good idea. by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5

    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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  4. With bandwidth like that... by JWhitlock · · Score: 5

    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."

  5. They've also incorporated CMU tech... by MeowMeow+Jones · · Score: 5
    >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.

    Trolls throughout history:

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  6. No tomorrowland by infinite9 · · Score: 4

    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.

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