hugh
2010-03-01, 04:29 PM
Kudos to Bell. Never heard of any problems with the Network (telco, internet etc) at the Olympics and the numbers were pretty staggering.
The network delivered over 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage to more than three and a half billion viewers around the world, a new Olympic record.
According to the International Olympic Committee the number of worldwide viewers was 50% higher than the 2006 Winter Games in Torino and a 25% higher than the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
The telecommunications network, which was designed and administered by Bell Canada, was also the first to use Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, based around a 10 gigabyte backbone and almost 300 kilometres of fibre optic cable connecting Vancouver and Whistler and 130 Olympic venues and support sites across the region.
Other notable network statistics about the Bell Olympic Telecommunications released today.
750,000 calls were made from 6,000 landline VOIP phones
90 million minutes of mobile voice traffic were consumed
30 million megabytes of mobile data and 65 million mobile text messages were sent and received
1.2 million metres of Cat5 cabling was installed to support 31,000 ethernet ports
On the web, the Vancouver 2010 website served up over 1.1 billion web pages to more than 300 million
1 trillion packets of data traversed Bell's Vancouver network
The network delivered over 24,000 hours of broadcast coverage to more than three and a half billion viewers around the world, a new Olympic record.
According to the International Olympic Committee the number of worldwide viewers was 50% higher than the 2006 Winter Games in Torino and a 25% higher than the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
The telecommunications network, which was designed and administered by Bell Canada, was also the first to use Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, based around a 10 gigabyte backbone and almost 300 kilometres of fibre optic cable connecting Vancouver and Whistler and 130 Olympic venues and support sites across the region.
Other notable network statistics about the Bell Olympic Telecommunications released today.
750,000 calls were made from 6,000 landline VOIP phones
90 million minutes of mobile voice traffic were consumed
30 million megabytes of mobile data and 65 million mobile text messages were sent and received
1.2 million metres of Cat5 cabling was installed to support 31,000 ethernet ports
On the web, the Vancouver 2010 website served up over 1.1 billion web pages to more than 300 million
1 trillion packets of data traversed Bell's Vancouver network