Cisco, Telia build 120Gbps connection for the world's largest LAN party
Cisco, Telia build 120Gbps connection for the world's largest LAN party: 
As gamers from around the world descend on the DreamHack festival in Sweden to play Minecraft, StarCraft, Battlefield 3, and much more over the course of four days, Cisco and Telia have supplied them all with a 120Gbps network, which they say is the fastest internet connection ever. The combination of Cisco's hardware and the Swedish ISP's fiber network is fast enough for you to download a movie in 47 thousandths of a second, and more than enough for the festival's estimated 20,000 attendees to use at once. (That's just the people attending in person — 2009 saw 200,000 participants from across the globe, and this year's expected to be even bigger.) The system relies on Cisco CRS-3 routers, which are capable of speeds up to a crazy...
Cisco, Telia build 120Gbps connection for the world's largest LAN party
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