the olympic-sized number's behind sochi's network
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The Olympic-SizedNumbers Behind Sochi’s Network
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If London 2012 was the Social
Media Games, then Sochi 2014 is
expectedto be the BYOD Games, with tens of
thousands of Olympic workers,
athletes, and journalists each bringing
multiple mobile devices, and
consumingimmense amounts of bandwidth as
a result. A powerful, reliable
network iskey.
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By The Numbers40,000 members of Olympic family, including…
• Volunteers• Olympic athletes• Reporters• Thousands of officials and scorekeepers
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120-125K
In order to promote the Olympics as well as physical fitness, Moscow officials have a special Subway promotion. Doing 30 squats will get Subway riders a free ticket.
5120,000+
mobiledevices
connected to Sochi’swireless network.*
Largest BYODenvironment – ever
*Includes Olympic family only. Does not include live spectators.
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11 venues divided into 2 clusters located within 48 kilometers of each other.
2 Olympic villages2 media centers
Where They’ll Use Them
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So, how will we bring Internet access to so many people, over such a large area?
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Olympic Pin Trading is considered the number one spectator sport of the Olympic Games 102 technology operations
centers
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A Ray of Light and Snowflake are the mascots for the Paralympic Winter Games.
4 Virtual Service Platform 9000 network switches
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Those disciplines will have a combined 98 events with 12 new events. Making it the largest Winter Olympics ever.
1. Freeskiing halfpipe*2. Freeskiing slopestyle*3. Women's ski jumping4. Snowboard slopestyle*5. Figure skating team event6. Snowboard parallel special slalom*7. Biathlon mixed relay8. Luge team relayAre all new.
* Listed as separate men’s & women’s events
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54 terabits-per-second capable backbone
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With an average February temperature of 8.3 °C (47 °F) and having a humid subtropical climate, Sochi will be the warmest city to have ever hosted a Winter Olympic Games.3
90 kilometers of optical fiber running
on the backbone between our VSP 9000s.
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Want to know more about Sochi? Head over to our Avaya Connected blogs to see how we’re apart of the games!
2,000 switches
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Norway has the most Winter Olympic medals (303).
Ahead of the U.S. (253) which has 63x the population.
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7 distinct virtualized networks running over the same infrastructure, enabled by our Fabric Connect technology
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The 2014 Winter Olympics will have 15 sports disciplines.
Alpine skiing, Biathalon, Bobsleigh, Crosscountry skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Freestyle skiing, Ice hockey, Luge, Nordic combined, Short track speed skating,
Skeleton, Ski jumping, Snowboarding & Speed skating.* *Whew.
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6,500 IP Phones
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35+
HD IPTV channels distributed to jumbo TV screens all across Sochi’s multiple Olympic Villages and other
venues.
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Matryoskas are a wooden nesting dolls that are apart of Russian’s iconography. There are Sochi Winter Olympics Matryoskas that you can buy or even win.
But Matryoska dolls actually originated in Japan.
8 2,500 Wireless Access Points
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Sochi has been a resort town since its coastline was settled in the late 1800s. Today, over two million visitors come to Sochi each year.4
50,000 Ethernet Ports
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Producing the Olympics is monumental, stressful task. Making it all happen are the unsung ‘IT Heroes’ behind the scenes. Avaya’s powerful, easy-to-manage network will help empower Sochi’s IT Heroes to make sure the first-ever BYOD Games go as smoothly as possible.
