[156153] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "Circuit of the americas" aka COTA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Walsh - EWS)
Sat Sep 8 19:38:58 2012
From: "Tom Walsh - EWS" <mailinglists@expresswebsystems.com>
To: "'Peter Losher'" <plosher@isc.org>,
"'Chris McDonald'" <copraphage@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E8EC9054-B082-476C-B6B8-1BE44BF5850D@isc.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 18:37:43 -0500
Cc: 'nanog list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Since AS6453 is the official connectivity/technology sponsor for FOM, I
> suspect they will be leasing some dark fiber to COTA for the F1 race.
> Some of the F1 teams have their own telecom sponsors (Vodafone McLaren,
> etc) which will be doing the same. Don't know who would be pulling the
> actual fiber though...
>
From what I was told from talking to the on-site IT guy for Caterham, all
teams are provide an MPLS connection back to their respective factory. I
seem to recall was an insanely small connection for what is the "pinnacle of
motorsports"... something like 4mbit or so.
Admittedly this was input from only one team, and a "lower tier" team at
that. This was also last year (2011).
I remember being distinctly surprised at the relatively low amount of
bandwidth they were provided at the track.
Tom Walsh
