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BT delivering communication services to London 2012
BT has been selected as the official communication services partner for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and the company will be providing the critical communications infrastructure for the greatest sporting event in the world, helping people everywhere to be engaged and inspired by the Games like never before. In 2012, every image, every sports report, every visit to the London 2012 website and millions of calls, e-mails and texts will be delivered over a BT network.
The Olympic Games will see 26 sports at 34 venues with 7.6 million tickets to be sold for visitors to see 10,500 athletes from 205 countries compete at 300 medal events. 21,000 media and broadcasters will cover 17 days of competition. And 3,000 technical officials, 205 National Olympic Committees and 7,500 team officials will be on site. The Paralympic Games are no less impressive, with 20 sports at 21 venues and 1.5 million tickets to be sold for visitors to see 4,200 athletes from 162 countries competing at 471 medal events. Here, 6,500 media and broadcasters will cover 11 days of competition. And 1,200 technical officials, 162 National Paralympic Committees and 2,300 team officials will be on site.
To accommodate those huge numbers in such a short time, the Olympic park with its size of 357 football pitches requires matching installations. More than 200 km of electrical cables were put into two six-kilometre tunnels built under the Park. 338 km is the length of the power cable contained within the Olympic Stadium itself. During the Games, the Main Press Centre will have 29,000 sq m of office space. Five jumbo jets could fit, wing-to-wing, inside the International Broadcast Centre.
BT is responsible for the provision and management of voice and data networks across each of the London 2012 venues, as well as meeting the individual communications requirements of the athletes, National Olympic Committees and media. BT Global Services has overall responsibility for the London 2012 delivery programme with:
- 80,000 connections across 94 locations, including competition venues
- 4,500 km internal cabling - enough cable to stretch the distance of the marathon over 100 times - or a distance nearly halfway from Beijing to London
- 6 GB\s information carried - the equivalent of 6,000 novels every second
- 1,000 wireless access points
When it comes to Games time, the eyes of the world will be on London in 2012 and the Olympic and Paralympic Games provide a global showcase for BT to demonstrate its many educational, community, cultural, sporting and sustainability initiatives.But it will also help BT to offer its unique capabilities and experience of supporting infrastructure build of such scale - which has applications for many more situations, such as building city- and campus infrastructures all over the world. Examples are modern high-technology network environments for new or existing cities, research campuses, hotel, convention centres, business parks and vacant urban land redeveloped into mixed commercial and residential properties.
To learn more about how GTM can help you with such projects, please visit us at: www.bt.com/globaltelecom
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