Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story

alphadogg writes "Neil Schubert is only partly kidding when he calls Marriott International's move toward a converged network a horror story. 'I'm here to tell you a terrifying tale of network design, support and administration,' he said at an IT conference in Boston, referring to a major bandwidth crunch caused by guests wielding Slingboxes and other network devices that overran the hotel chain's outdated network. 'One of the things we've learned about our guest networks is we have one of the most foreign, hostile environments known to man in the network administration world ... I can take 100,000 customers a night on that infrastructure and we actually have less incidents of harm than we do on our corporate back-office infrastructure.'"

Comments

Come on!

[Anonymous Coward]

For running this slashvertisement, Zonk's getting one years free accommodation from the Marriott chain, so what's the problem?

Can't an "Editor" graft in peace?

hurm?

[spazmonkey]

So what was the point of that article again? I must have missed it. Perhaps the PR flak who subbed it could explain it to me. I want that two minutes of my life back now /.

Re:hurm?

[CrazyJim1]

And here I was hoping the comments would be exciting to make up for my boredom reading that article.

weilding slingboxes?

[ChiChiCuervo]

I just get this mental image I'm not going to be able to shake....

"Some call it a slingbox, I call it appleTV. nnnngggggghhhh"

Re:Where's the horror?

[Bastard of Subhumani]

You must be new here.

Re:Unrealistic convergence plan

[Anonymous Coward]

You clearly misread. You'd need *two* racks full of computers and raid drives to cache "the internet".

Re:Where's the horror?

[dwater]

Well, my mum told me I shouldn't arrange to meet people off the net'...but, er, maybe...