{"id":70028,"date":"2014-10-22T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70028"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T09:21:24","slug":"rage-2014-this-is-how-big-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/70028-rage-2014-this-is-how-big-it-was","title":{"rendered":"rAge 2014 &#8211; This is how big it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>rAge 2014 took place over the weekend of 10-12 October 2014 at The Dome in Johannesburg, and saw local gamers, cosplayers, and tech fans gather for three days of gaming entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The event&#8217;s organisers have now released the attendance figures and other statistics for the 12th edition of the exposition, which we though you would be interested in reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2014 saw\u00a031,254 visitors attend rAge over the three days, which is slightly down from last year&#8217;s record-breaking\u00a032,626 visitor count.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Internet Solutions stepped up to provide broadband connectivity to the 2,148-player NAG LAN portion of the event, offering a 1Gbps link. Internet traffic served during the NAG LAN at rAge 2013 was 26TB, which consisted of 21.3TB downloaded, and 4.6TB uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>2014 saw a substantial increase in traffic, with IS providing a 5.2Gbps connection to the\u00a02,370 who took part in the NAG LAN. Traffic downloads reached 99.64TB, with 24.34TB uploaded over the three days of the expo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the 5th year HP sponsored the switches required for the NAG LAN. This network gets setup and configured in less than a week to provide connectivity to the users &#8211; providing a total of 94 switches at a value of just over R2\u00a0million\u00a0to connect the users to one another,&#8221; said the organisers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibitors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 100 exhibitors took part in this year&#8217;s event &#8211; including big players like Microsoft, Sony, and Megarom &#8211; packing the\u00a019,553m2 of floor space.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed out on the event, read our comprehensive coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/69941-rage-gamers-smash-100tb-on-5-2gbps-connection.html\"><strong>rAge gamers smash 100TB<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/69555-rage-2014-what-you-missed.html\"><strong>rAge 2014 &#8211; What you missed<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/69831-hands-on-at-rage-2014-the-good-and-the-bad.html\">Hands on at rAge 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_69759\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69759\" class=\"wp-image-69759 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4058-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4058\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4058-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4058.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You like what you see?<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/69943-is-this-the-sickest-game-ever-made.html\">Is this the sickest game ever made?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/69955-playstation-at-over-9000-in-south-africa.html\">PlayStation at OVER 9000 in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/69935-the-playstation-4-laptop.html\">The PlayStation 4 laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many people attended, how many gamers lugged their PC to the LAN, and how much data was downloaded at rAge 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":70030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,12461],"class_list":["post-70028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-rage-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70034,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70028\/revisions\/70034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}