High speed fibre hub to be built for the London Olympics

London is to be turned into a high-speed fibre broadband network hub in preparation for when it plays host to the Olympic Games in 2012.

The London Borough of Hackney councillor, Guy Nicholson, who is leading the regeneration of the East London site for the Games has said that the new Olympic Park network, which will be linking to 94 venues throughout the UK may become a high-speed national network template.

death race dvdrip download Vice president for the London 2012 delivery programme for BT recently said, whilst speaking at a Westminster eForum even that a 10 000 access point “industrial strength fibre infrastructure” would be serving the Olympic Park, linking to locations within the M25 using Ethernet cabling.

Part of the contract agreed with BT would be to make sure that future schools, sports clubs, housing and other such building would be able to use as much of the new infrastructure as possible at the Olympic Park and the other venues in the UK.
The delivery of 4 500km of cabling, 16 000 fixed handsets, 14 000 mobile phones and 40 TV channels for the Olympics is the charge leveled at BT.

Hill said “We will need to be handling six gigabytes every second, the equivalent of 6,000 novels or the entire content of Wikipedia every five seconds. We will work with them [London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games] post 2012 to make sure that we are adaptable and if there is anything in the ground we can reuse it later on,” he added.

The provision of a reliable infrastructure and not cutting edge technology was the main idea for the Games Hill warned. Nicholson also said the benefits of the new network would be far more wide-reaching that just London alone.

He said “The capital investment required to put this future network into place will add as much to Olympic Park as it will to the rest of the live sites across the UK. It becomes a model for a new network connecting up the cities and towns of Britain. The contribution that this will make to our national economy far outweighs what we are spending now.”