Are the Olympic Games the pinnacle of sporting achievements—or of technology deployments? It’s not as absurd a question as it sounds. As the official network supplier for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, Avaya is building its most ambitious network ever: one that will be virtualized, multiservice, all-IP, fabric-enabled—and able to support tens of thousands of device-toting Olympic employees, volunteers, athletes, media, and others while providing up to 54 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth.
It will be a showcase for Avaya—not only for the fast-growing Russian market, but for the rest of the world as well. Maintaining steady speeds is a notoriously difficult task due to “consumer expectations of always-on Internet and roaming,” wrote Avaya EMEA President Michael Bayer in the Financial Times earlier this summer. But Avaya is up to the challenge. The network in Sochi will authenticate and manage access for all mobile users while ensuring that Wi-Fi speeds remain strong, whether they’re taking “selfie” photos on their smartphones to post on Facebook or downloading real-time streaming HD video on their tablets.
This is the third consecutive Olympic Winter Games for which Avaya or its 2009 acquisition, Nortel Networks, is the official network supplier. Avaya employees working on Sochi say that it is more challenging than Vancouver (2010) and Torino (2006) by far. They also evince total confidence that the Avaya network in Sochi will perform as flawlessly as it has in past Olympics.
Avaya has already won more than 30 Olympic-related commercial contracts that are incremental to its contract with the Organizing Committee. For instance, it is supplying the networking, telephony, and other communications services for the new town being built in the mountains adjacent to where the Olympic skiing, bobsled, biathlon, and other events will be held. Avaya will also supply communications infrastructure and services for developers of the Grand Prix auto races that will take place in Sochi starting in late 2014, says Yunusov, as well as the 2018 World Cup soccer matches that will be held in 11 Russian cities, including Sochi.
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