DreamHack, the half-yearly lanparty in Sweden, the access to an internet connection with a speed of 120Gbps. Also hope the organizers of DreamHack Winter 2011 a record number of visitors.
Multinational Cisco and telecom operator Telia, the network infrastructure, take care of DreamHack, the lanparty that from 24 to 27 november in the Swedish city of Jönköping will be held. The internal network is via the fibre optic network linked to the internet exchange in Stockholm, a distance of approximately 300 km.
With a bandwidth capacity of 120 gigabit per second, according to the DreamHack organization as possible for the fastest connection ever, over such a distance. The previous edition of DreamHack had a bandwidth of 20Gbps with the internet. Cisco sets on the four-day lanparty two CRS3 routers in the data stream between the participants of the lanparty and the internet to process. The company claims that it is for 4.8 million euro in network equipment deployment.
In addition to the fast connection, expect the organizers of DreamHack Winter 2011 a record number of visitors. In total commitment of the organizers to 20,000 visitors, that the lanparty a world record would break.
