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IKANO PRESS RELEASES
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IKANO Press Releases:
Title: Technology Rehearsals Test Network Fail-Over Systems
for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
Date: October 26th, 2001
For Release: IMMEDIATE
SALT LAKE CITY - The stage is set and technical rehearsals are underway as testing begins for the critical network fail-over systems for the 2002 Olympic data network. IKANO Communications is the Official Data Networking Services Supplier for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
This high-performance Olympic data network will be used to aggregate data and information from Olympic events and then distribute the information to Olympic staff, athletes, officials, the host broadcaster, and the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee (SLOC) Web site.
During testing, a team of IKANO engineers broke the Olympic data network. They powered it down, bankrupted routers and switches and mishandled the network in any way they could think possible. Why would the Official Data Networking Services Supplier break its own network? It's simple. To test it.
Breaking the network allowed engineers to see how the network would react if any of the imagined situations actually occurred during Games time. The tests were designed to test fail-over systems.
Fail-over systems enable the minimization of data disruption resulting from disasters or other causes of unplanned downtime. Basically a fail over system is a back-up system designed to take over if another part of the network breaks or stops working. The challenge is creating a fail-over system that will take over quickly and efficiently without ever letting the problem become visible to the outside world.
The Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) set forth fail-over requirements for the IKANO-built data network. The network's fail-over systems must respond within a designated amount of time, in order to meet those specifications. According to Bob Donohoo, Senior Network Engineer, the technical rehearsal went extremely well. As a matter of fact, test results
showed faster reaction time and better speed than required by SLOC.
"IKANO is acutely aware of how serious it is when any system does not perform to expectations," said Henry Smith, IKANO CEO. IKANO's Olympic data network is working well in Salt Lake, and should continue to do so through Games time. Fail-over systems responded well -- faster than expected. We anticipate the network will deliver a gold-medal performance during the Games."
While the data network is operational both before and during the Olympic Winter Games, systems must be in place to ensure that the network stays operational. If a failure should occur, IKANO engineers must isolate and solve the problem as quickly as possible. While the primary network may fail-over to a backup network in a matter of seconds, the original problem must typically be corrected in a matter of minutes. To ensure that this happens, approximately 12 network management stations will be strategically placed throughout the network using a variety of utilities and several custom-built applications and databases written by IKANO engineers.
Information distributed over the network will include event schedules and real-time results, athlete profiles, weather and performance data. IKANO is currently building, configuring, testing, managing and maintaining a data network capable of supporting all the integral technology functions of the Games. The network will be available at all venues, many of which will stage events simultaneously.
Over 900 switches, 120 routers, 150 T1 lines, 11 T3 lines, 12 network management stations, firewalls, cache engines, a few load balancing servers and nearly two years of preparation and testing assure that the IKANO-supported Olympic data network will deliver a gold medal performance in February 2002 during its 17 days of operation.
About IKANO
IKANO is a Full Service Provider (FSP) of Internet networking infrastructure and private label Internet services. IKANO provides turnkey processes for businesses and organizations wishing to leverage the Internet. IKANO offers a vital global IP network; application solutions; private-label Internet services, including dial-up, DSL, and high-speed wireless; as well as Web and mail hosting; branded dynamic portal development; branded customer service and technical support; automated accounting; and unified communications. Since its first branded Internet Web site was launched in 1998, IKANO has added more than 250 branded partners.
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