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 Rates
40 Gigabytes of data per second
Number of Switches Deployed
2,200 switches
Number of Wireless Access Points
1,800
Number of Connections
30,000 across 94 locations
Number of IP Telephones
16,500
Number of Cable TV Sockets
7,000
Number of Live Sites to Cover
20
Olympic FirstsFirst Olympics to use cloud services – for voice (BT "One Cloud" (HUCs), collaboration (BT Meet Me /Webex) and email security (Cisco IronPort).
Amount of Network Infrastructure Testing
200,000 hours
Number 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