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How the Vancouver Olympics converged its network

By: Greg Meckbach On: 08 Feb 2010 For: Network World Canada Creator

Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. is running the network for this year’s Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. The organizing committee’s CIO said the 20 Gigabit per second infrastructure will combine video from thousands of televisions with 80 support applications. Find out which Nortel products will be used

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If you’re watching television coverage of the men’s downhill skiing at the Vancouver Olympics next Saturday, chances are you will see a video stream that ran over the same network as the data network controlling the games’ logistics and finance functions.

Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (TSE: BCE) says it has laid 5,000 kilometres of fibre at the Olympics venues in Vancouver and Whistler, providing 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput for video feeds, photo file transfers and phone conversations.

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Tags: Wi-Fi, Samsung, Nortel, Bell, wireless, Avaya, Winter Olympics, Windows Mobile, VANOC

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Greg Meckbach Greg Meckbach is editor of Network World Canada and has worked for ComputerWorld Canada, Communications & Networking and Computing Canada.

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andrew daviel.: by andrew daviel. 2/16/2010 7:02:14 PM
Our Nortel switches have always worked pretty well - a solid product from a real company (OK, maybe Bay Networks acquired by Nortel). Pity about the stock market hype and mismanagement that drove the company to bankruptcy and destroyed investors assets.
mark allemang: by mark allemang 2/22/2010 12:47:18 PM
Hmmm...I would have chosen Cisco.

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