How Will Bell Deliver The Games?

Three more days until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games. How will Bell deliver the Games to the world?

Bell Canada is a Premier National Partner and the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. At a technical briefing in Vancouver yesterday, Justin Webb, VP of Olympic Services and Operation for Bell Canada, described that it took their team more than five years to build specific infrastructure, known as the Olympic Network in order to deliver the largest multi-sport event worldwide.

Could you imagine if a Bell employee had to tell an Olympic ski jumper that they’d have to redo the jump, due to “technical difficulties”?  That would be corporate suicide for Bell – the pressure is on! Webb expressed his confidence that Bell will provide the best for the world to see. 

In a release, Bell stated that they are delivering the first IP Olympic Games in 2010 so that all voice, data, and Internet will be carried over a single network. As a result, this “architecture reduces building requirements from three networks to one, resulting in a more cost effective and sustainable solution”. According to Webb, they’re reducing their copper footprint by a third, and “reduced operative costs because of converged networks are able to deliver a faster response time”. Another fact on how is Bell delivering the Games to the world – they’ve installed over 285 kilometers of fibre optic network between Vancouver and Whistler. Equivalent to 2,800 football fields and enough fibre capacity to run all of Canada’s telecommunication needs.

We’ve become a culture of immediacy and the 2010 Games will be delivering our Olympic fix through three very different type of screens: television, PC, and mobile. Stay connected and enjoy the Games.

Source: GetConnected