The Olympic-Sized Number's Behind Sochi's Network

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By The Numbers
40,000 members of Olympic family, including…
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Volunteers
Olympic athletes
Reporters
Thousands of officials and scorekeepers


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120-125K

Largest 5
BYOD
environment
– ever

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.

120,000+
mobile
devices

connected
to Sochi’s
wireless
network.*


*Includes Olympic family only. Does not include live spectators.

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Where They’ll Use Them

2 Olympic villages
2 media centers
11 venues divided into 2 clusters located
within 48 kilometers of each other.


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So, how will we bring
Internet access to so
many people, over
such a large area?


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2
10
centers

Olympic Pin Trading is considered
the number one operations
technology spectator sport of
the Olympic Games


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4 Virtual Service Platform 9000
network switches


A Ray of Light and Snowflake are the
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mascots for the Paralympic Winter Games.

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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 jumping
4. Snowboard slopestyle*
5. Figure skating team event
6. Snowboard parallel special slalom*
7. Biathlon mixed relay
terabits-per-second
8. Luge team relay
Are all new.
capable backbone

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* Listed as separate men’s & women’s events

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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.

90 kilometers of optical fiber running on
the backbone between our VSP 9000s.

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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.

7 distinct virtualized networks
running over the same
infrastructure, enabled by our
Fabric Connect technology


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12 The 2014 Winter Olympics will have 15 sports disciplines.

6,500 IP Phones

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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HD IPTV channels distributed to jumbo TV screens all across
Sochi’s multiple Olympic Villages and other venues.


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2,500

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.
Wireless Access Points

But Matryoska dolls actually originated in Japan.


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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.

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.


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