London Wires Up For 2012 Olympic Games

alphadogg writes "While London's massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine-tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit scores, let athletes send e-mail, and broadcast high-definition video of the Games. The Olympic Games are set to kick off on July 27 next year and will be followed by the Paralympic Games. Test athletic events are already under way, which are being used to evaluate the resiliency of high-speed data networks costing millions of pounds. Acer has a large role in the 2012 Olympics and will provide much of the IT hardware, including 11,500 desktops running Windows 7; 1,100 laptops; 900 servers, and other parts including SAN storage systems, touchscreen monitors and standard monitors."

Re:Union Jack Robbing the World.

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We robbed the world many centuries ago fellow centurian!

Watch Yes Minister...

[syousef]

I'm curious about how they won the contract. Surely a vendor bidding to use open source software would have made a lower bid.

Did the request for bids even allow for open source?

I could explain it to you buy I suggest you watch "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" instead. It would be quicker and more entertaining. Only downside is it's slightly out of date. Politicians and bureaucrats have had 30 years to improve on their incompetence, and use technology to aid it.

Re:The TOC's location is a soft secret

[Anonymous Coward]

Next to Torchwood!

Television Coverage

[FSWKU]

Instead of the hassle of bringing in TV cameras, they could just route all those CCTV's to the broadcast trucks. I'm sure there's plenty of existing network infrastructure in place for that system anyway!

Re:Is is just me or is the olympics getting worse

[TheRaven64]

If you remember when the olympics wasn't an overhyped commercial extravaganza and was actually about amateur athletes from around the world competing, then you definitely are old.