What is E3 and Electronic Data shipping ?
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is currently being hosted for the next three days in Los Angeles, showcasing all of the new and best in video game technology.
While most industry events are drab affairs filled with jetlagged businessmen in crumpled suits, E3 is growing in popularity and filling stands that make up the 720,000-square foot (67,000-meter squared) of exhibition space at the gigantic Los Angeles Convention Center.
Over 3,000 people arrive early to set up the show, which has taken place in California every year since 1995. Organizers recently started admitting members of the public who pay $250 (£187) for an entry ticket for a single day.
Some of the biggest announcements were from Bethesda who are bringing Fallout 76 later this year to their millions of customers. It is an on-line MMO based in the post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland known as Fallout. A new Elder Scrolls game was announced as well during their giant presentation, so much excitement from that dept. is up and coming and we cannot wait.
What does this have to do with us ? Well since we are in the packing and moving industry specializing electronic shipping and enjoy a good game of Fortnite like any good red-blooded living man and child, this was a good place to showcase some of our work.
The show uses more internet bandwidth over three days than most US cities use in a year. If you were print out all the data moved across the internet during the show onto standard A4 paper, the resulting stack would be higher than the Empire State Building.
Also, each year there are around 35,000 video monitors, 10 miles of extension cords and cables and two tons of ethernet cables.
All of this has to be crated and moved, across town, across state lines, even internationally.
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally included backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g. air conditioning, fire suppression) and various security devices. A large data center is an industrial-scale operation using as much electricity as a small town !
It is up to us to figure out how to secure all of this, and make it from point A to B. Often it is Point A to F with all letter's in-between at times, but we have fun with it and have had over twenty years of success and are still going strong, and trying to keep up with the latest in gaming and technology all the while.
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