Brighton and New York based internet service provider and live event networking company OptaNet, have secured a key role at the Dota 2 Championships, thanks to their ongoing relationship with F1 Consultancy.



Dota 2 is a highly successful multiplayer online battle arena video game, developed by Valve, the American video game development and digital distribution company.

Between 3rd – 8th August 2015, The International Dota 2 Championships takes place at the Key Arena in Seattle, with preliminary wildcard qualifications and seeding taking place at the nearby Westin Hotel. Teams from America, Europe, China and South East Asia hope to claim a share of the $17.5 million prize fund.

OptaNet have been trusted to ensure gamers can compete and over 20 million fans can stream the live event from around the world.

Two 10Gb circuits have been installed as primary and secondary lines, along with a third 1Gb wireless solution. The core has been designed to keep the real time gamers on one 10Gb circuit with back-office and attendee traffic on a second 10Gb circuit. Failover configuration allows the traffic automatically fail over from Circuit 1 to Circuit 2 or visa versa in the event that both 10Gb circuits were to fail then a truly diverse wirelessly delivered circuit would take over the essential traffic to ensure that the event has a successful outcome.

OptaNet have provided all the core networking equipment including 10 Gigabit Cisco Nexus 3064 layer 3 switches and Cisco ASA security appliances. Complex security rules have been deployed to mitigate against possible denial of service attacks. The network is deploy in an N+1 design ensuring that the network has no single point of failure.