Network Fuel
April 9th, 2008 by Louis DiMeglio
From InteropNet Hot Stage in San Francisco
In a space where the posters read “Born to Network” and the t-shirts make connections between duct tape and The Force, one might wonder what fuels the work that’s occurring.
Well, if you take a look at the pictures, you’ll discover it’s a heady mix of sugar, alcohol and candy. In reality, while those do provide the physical fuel, it’s really the desire of each vendor to show off their technology (and a little desire to show how much better they are than everyone else) that drives things. 
It’s been an interesting day here. We started yesterday by simulating power failures (to be sure things kept running) and ended it by simulating a total catastrophe that took the entire network down (so we could see how long it would take to get everything back up).
Today is a wrap-up day to configure devices and systems and then everything starts to get crated for shipping. By Friday night everything will be crated and ready to load in a truck, and a very interesting two weeks will have come to a close.
3 weeks to Interop!
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