37c3 infrastructure review

The infrastructure review is usually one of my favorite talks to get to see behind the scenes and the work that many teams did to make the event possible.

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Moving onto the NOC, it was challenging this year as there was a new team, new building and multi-mode fiber. The new communication rooms were a lot cooler than before but the getting the fiber working with 100Gbps network with the optics was a challenge. #37c3

Some stats about the #37c3 network
4x 100G external connectivity
~35G peak useage.
10 000 wireless users
8 Routers
180 switches
244 access points

YoloColo:
53x 1G
3x 2.5G
4x 10G BaseT
26x 10G SFP+
1x 40Q SFP+
11KW Power
104 IPv4 Addresses

THANKS TO ALL THE SPONSORS WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE!

Moving onto the Phone operations Center, there was challenges getting it set up due to the fiber challenges that the NOC had. They decided to move from hard drives to SSDs and they experiencing a lot of failures. There were challenges which were quickly fixed by the team. #37c3

There was a DDoS on the phone network as people could call a number to get a pixel to change.

Some stats:
Handed out ~120 orga loan DECTs
52 SIP Phones
54 DECT Antennas
9 EPDDI Antennas

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More PoC Stats:
7 600 configured extensions
4 255 configured DECT Phones
2 700 configured DECT Phones
Max 296 Calls in Parallel
The system handled more than 172k calls.
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