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Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network
alphadogg writes "Engineers are putting the final touches on a network capable of handling up to 54Tbps of traffic when the Winter Olympics opens on Feb. 7 in the Russian city of Sochi. The two locations where the Olympics will take place — the Olympic village in Sochi and a tight cluster of Alpine venues in the nearby Krasnaya Polyana Mountains — are completely new construction, so this project represents a greenfield environment for Avaya, the company heading up the project. In addition to investing in a telecom infrastructure, Russia is spending billions of dollars to upgrade Sochi's electric power grid, its transportation system and even its sewage treatment facilities."
They are claiming it will handle 54 Tbps of network traffic ... up from the Vancouver games four years ago that was only 4 Tbps. One interesting tidbit is the ratio of wired to wireless traffic was 4-to-1 back then ... they expect that ratio to be reversed this time ... with 2,000 802.11n access points!
That a bit more bandwidth than this Christmas website has ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
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Why set up such a gay network? It will link all the gays to all the other gays so that they can spread their gay homosexual propaganda to Russian straight children.
Send the network to prison for spreading the gay.
It will be totally pwned by Russian black-hat hackers.
They will have a feeding frenzy of personal details, photos and of course the credit card numbers of anyone who makes a purchase there.
In Soviet Russia credit comes to YOU!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And secondly:
So it sounds like this network will be just to support the games themselves, not for the general public.
not like the russians arent lollerskating to the data bank
the massive surveillance, logging, and filtering capabilities insisted-upon by the russian government and the i.o.c. or its broadcast partners (who have spent huge sums of money for exclusive rights in their own territories)? you KNOW its there, and is likely an even more impressive hardware and networking deployment than the public-facing access side.
How about they upgrade their antiquated attitudes towards gay people?
You only get spinoffs from sending things into space. This story is trying to imply otherwise. Please remove from the front page.
.. when will it upgrade its view of people?
Misleading article is misleading. The entire network itself handles 54Tbps. The WiFi network, to quote TFA, "will be distributed using about 2,000 802.11n access points across the Olympics Game sites; including inside the stands for the first time."
Not even 802.11ac.
If we colonize Mars, it won't be the World Wide Web anymore. UWW?
Or maybe they have a separate network provider (perhaps a local company) for the spectators.
My mom says I'm cool.
As a lesbian (yes, some of us do browse Slashdot), I find the attitudes of the political correctness crowd far more distasteful than the attitudes of the Russians in this matter.
It's very hypocritical for the politically correct crowd to clamor on about how bad discrimination is, but in doing so they end up discriminating against those who wish to hold viewpoints that may be considered controversial. The political correctness crowd's attempt to take a stance against discrimination is inherently discriminatory in and of itself.
Collectively, we can't move forward if we grant a monopoly on "legitimate" discrimination to one particular group of people (the political correctness crowed, for example).
While the Russians may severely dislike homosexuality, to the point of criminalizing it, at least they're honest about it. They don't pretend to be against discrimination, while simultaneously engaging in it, like the political correctness crowed constantly does.
I find honest dislike or disapproval to be much less onerous and disgusting than the veiled, denied-but-omnipresent hatred that the political correctness crowd engages in.
Lots, and lots, of spying. Russia is masturbating over the opportunity to offer free WiFi.
Komar, please, we beg of you, stop hyping your own site here. We know about it. We all saw it years ago. We don't care any longer.
Hyperbole much?
You are right, it will be controlled by Russian government. But the gay propaganda is pretext only. The Government is to figure out who is either Wahhabi or Neo-Nazi. The modern trend is that Wahhabis will sit until end of Olympics, and Neo-Nazi (i.e. everybody who remembers that Russians are the people too) will be incarcerated up to 10 years. http://politzeki.tumblr.com/post/25945827552/i-will-destroy-you-or-what-happens-if-one-does-not
The downside is that all that radiant energy will melt what little snow they're expecting...
Talks up crazy aspect of network somewhere and then totally fails to mention how its being implemented. This was a great PR article for Avaya and whatever wireless network vendor is being used for the WiFi deployment is screaming in their office at how they weren't mentioned at all.
Boycott the corrupt Olympics
Boycott the corrupt Olympics
Boycott the corrupt Olympics
What I tell you three times is true.
to stream everything that goes on in the Olympic sex village.
CATV HFC network works better for broadcast and if they have it as clear QAM then you don't need set top boxes with most HD tv's.
“We have built the TOCs in separate locations to ensure redundancy in the case of a natural disaster or man-made incident,” says Frohwerk. “Should the Adler TOC go down, we would simply send the next shift to the Sochi TOC and carry on.”
So if a TOC is blown up, they'll just send the next shift to the other TOC and continue? Ummmm....
This story should be removed from slashdot. It is just some made up news to attract attention to the worst Olympic Winter Games ever. As they say in marketing "any news is good news". Boycott the Mafia Olympics, they are just the propaganda games of a mafia state, build with the dirty money of oligarchs, to praise a dictator. Not to much different than the Nazi Olympics from 1936 when Hitler was parading his fascist state. Russian government not only discriminates against gays but also against ethnic minorities, majority of the Sochi staff are Russians from Moscow or Sankt-Peterburg and non Russian local people from Sochi.
... in cyrillic
While I'd assume some of the connectivity is contained within the site and some within Russia itself, these are international games and you'd presume a large chunk of the traffic is destined for destinations outside of Russia.
Are we gonna have to suffer every commentator struggling to mispronounce Krasnaya Polyana instead of using the most obvious straight-forward translation "red valley"?
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
tight cluster of Alpine venues in the nearby Krasnaya Polyana Mountains
I am sure this is a typo, but I thought it funny. According to dictionary.com, if the word Alpine has a capitol A, it means either 1)of, pertaining to, on, or part of the Alps or 2) of or pertaining to downhill skiing or a competitive downhill skiing event.
Down further in the page:
1. of or relating to the Alps or their inhabitants
2. geology
a. of or relating to an episode of mountain building in the Tertiary period during which the Alps were formed
As the article is not referring to The Alps, but rather to the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains, they should be using the word "alpine" with a lowercase A.
Yes, I am being a grammar Nazi, but found it funny.
All supplied by Avaya. Which means that the chance of things going horribly wrong are substantial. Nortel (now Avaya) were the 'local technology partner' for the Vancouver Olympics; I know some network engineers who still have bad dreams from that ordeal. And working with the Avaya crap, I have a fairly good idea what they're talking about.
Correct, because I do not have the details, and am too busy to spend time
studying a Russian law which I have no way to change.
Wrong. I am upset that people are using outrageous logical fallacies for
political reasons. Politics is already dominated by logical fallacies, it is
a huge problem. We don't need more of it.
Except that I didn't say that. Read my post and read its parent. I was
exemplifying what hyperbole is and what it isn't.
Do you have reliable, impartial, non-activist sources on your claims?
There are some questions TFA doesn't answer.
This seems like a fluff marketing piece for Avaya. I'm sure they're doing some really cool stuff in Sochi, but we didn't learn much about it for all that text. Sad face.
Well said!