Voxeo Talks

The Making of the “Beast Cage”, Part 2

September 9th, 2010 by Dan York

In Part 1 of this three-part series, I showed you the initial making of our 16,000 port demo system for SpeechTEK in August as part of our Prophecy 10 announcement. Now in part 2, we’re moving on to what’s inside the case and to the front of the case… (click on the images to see a larger version)

This was the initial power-up of the “Beast Cage”. Not quite sure what discussion was going on here…
	First we installed three SGI Rackable C1001 servers. It took less than 30 minutes to install Prophecy 10 on the three Linux servers and start the 15,000 port load test. The temporary Cisco ethernet switch on top.
Next we started work on the front of the case. Here we’ve removed the front panel plywood and put the front LED lighting in.
	We had the plexiglass front panel custom-made. Here you can see the LED lighting shining through the panel.
Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor was directly involved with this project and is seen here modifying the plexiglass front panel to allow the LED lighting cable to run through two corners of the panel.
	Here Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn and head performance engineer Rob Green are working on the config and load test.
Next step was to install the final Juniper EX2200-48P ethernet switch and all hardware and cables.
	The Beast is alive!
Finally the Beast Cage is loaded in our CEO’s Jeep for transport to the Orlando airport and on to New York!