Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

Sun Aug 2 16:43:41 UTC 2015

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Dave Pooser wrote:

> I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb 
> Internet pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets 
> through to inconvenience the LAN party.

I was involved in delivering 1GigE to Dreamhack in 2001 which at the time 
(if I remember correctly), 4500 computers that participants brought with 
them.

Usually these events nowadays tend to use 5-20 gigabit/s for that amount 
of people, so 2x1GE is just not enough. Already in 2001 that GigE was 
fully loaded after 1-2 days.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se