Friday, 1 August 2008

Nortel Official Network Infrastructure Partner for London 2012 Olympic

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and Paralympic Games Limited this week officially appointed Nortel as its Network Infrastructure Partner.

“London 2012 will be the Games for a connected world – connecting people in revolutionary ways and enriching the Olympic and Paralympic experience by bringing people closer to the Games than ever before. It will be an evolution of the Games and provide an online immersive environment where athletes and spectators can share their Olympic and Paralympic memories instantaneously,” said Mike Zafirovski, President and CEO of Nortel.

“The network infrastructure is fundamental to the Games and critical to the delivery of its communications services. Fresh from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, our team will be experienced in providing the level of passion, support and expertise required to help deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012.”

As Official Network Infrastructure Partner, Nortel will be responsible for providing BT – London 2012’s Communications Services Partner-- with the equipment to enable secure and robust Wide Area Networks, wireless Local Area Networks, call centre and fixed telephony infrastructure which LOCOG requires to stage the Games.

London 2012’s communications will support over 205 international sporting organisations, 20,000 worldwide media, nine million spectators, and over four billion television viewers of the London Games.

Nortel will form part of LOCOG’s technology team, which also includes Atos Origin, BT and Samsung, and these organisations will play a fundamental role in delivering the communications for the Games.