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Day 1 of US Cross Country Skiing Nationals.
In the stadium at 5:15am, results submitted to USSA at 9pm. We think it was the largest individual start day ever at US Nationals with nearly 600 people on the start lists.
Crazy day getting all the infrastructure running, but it all came together at least on site. Lots of DNS problems with the live results server. Even with all the issues we had 5500 people hammering the live results during the day.
We've deployed an entirely new network infrastructure on the Craftsbury Campus (we being mostly Sheldon who works here, but I've gotten pulled into a lot of it). That allows us to overlay the timing network to specific switch ports in any building so that we can have our private network running monitors and audio drops and timing points anywhere they have fiber run. Its been a long few days of pulling cable and patching fiber and installing switches.
One of the things we pulled off that I'm most excited about is that we are distributing audio across the network so there is speaker coverage of the entire venue. It didn't work perfectly today, but at least the PA announcements were available everywhere.
Our new company motto:
"Bullitt Timing; we bring buses full of cable, and zip tie them to everything"
We have the Big Green Bus (1956 chevy school bus on a '07 dodge 3500 chases), and my VW bus on site. The BFGB is the announcers cabin and audio mixing, and the VW is parked next to the timing shed as equipment storage.