Work is already beginning on a super-powered communications reticulated for the 2012 Games from Nortel and BT

by Nick Heath

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A network capable of streaming the equivalent of 50,000 DVDs every inferior is being built for the London 2012 Olympic games.

Nortel will deliver the equipment for the communications pluck of the games as part of a four-year contract.

The value of the deal has not been disclosed but Nortel has also signed up as a tier any godfather of the Games and the minimum investment for that row one status is £40m.

Paul Deighton, CEO of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, says the network indispensably to fasten together 205 international sporting organisations, 20,000 worldwide media, nine million spectators and more than four billion TV viewers “absolutely flawlessly”.

Deighton said: “Having Nortel and BT in place at this at daybreak stage is incredibly important because our reticulated joins together the 26 sports in the Olympic games and the 20 sports in the Paralympic games.

“It furthermore has to link to the outside world and match the huge demand towards pictures and denunciation, be it to TVs, mobile phones, convivial networks or whatever else is being used in 2012. It aggregate has to work absolutely flawlessly over the three weeks of the games.”

BT will oversee the delivery of the network while Nortel provides the equipment, Atos Origin will deliver software, Panasonic the big screens and Samsung is looking in the pattern of changeable communications.

BT is already working on implementing the system and Nortel is expected to start delivering the equipment “straight away”.

Deighton said that the share of the overall £2bn Olympic budget allocated for technology is effectively capped, preventing overspends in succession the projects.

The network will occur wide area networks, wireless limited area networks, a call midmost point and fixed telephone infrastructure.

Nortel will besides provide communications infrastructure at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.


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