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A Need for Speed

Channel Insider content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. View our editorial policy here. A Need for Speed The network will be transmitting 60 Gb/sec – the equivalent of 60 000 novels or the entire content of Wikipedia every 0.5 seconds. Data Transfer…

Michael Vizard

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1A Need for Speed

The network will be transmitting 60 Gb/sec – the equivalent of 60 000 novels or the entire content of Wikipedia every 0.5 seconds.

2Data Transfer Rates

40 Gigabytes of data per second

3Number of Switches Deployed

2,200 switches

4Number of Wireless Access Points

1,800

5Number of Connections

30,000 across 94 locations

6Number of IP Telephones

16,500

7Number of Cable TV Sockets

7,000

8Number of Live Sites to Cover

  20  

9Olympic Firsts

First Olympics to use cloud services – for voice (BT "One Cloud" (HUCs), collaboration (BT Meet Me /Webex) and email security (Cisco IronPort).

10Amount of Network Infrastructure Testing

200,000 hours

11Number of People that Need to be Connected

205 National Olympic Committees500 Olympic Family Members6,000 LOCOG employees21,800 athletes and team officials22,000 media personnelTotal: 49,805

Michael Vizard

Contributing writer

Michael Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist, with nearly 30 years of experience writing and editing about enterprise IT issues. He is a writer for publications including Programmableweb, IT Business Edge, CIOinsight, Channel Insider and UBM Tech. He formerly was editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he launched the company’s custom content division, and has also served as editor in chief for CRN and InfoWorld. He also has held editorial positions at PC Week, Computerworld and Digital Review.

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