Behind every great athlete is a nervous network engineer

Time to move the paralympics?

If countries have the paralympics before the main event rather than after it'll be a good test of security, systems and infrastruture.

Taxpayers rejoice!

I for one welcome anything that increases the amount (12 billion and rising) this charade will cost the UK taxpayers.

Atlanta 1996 website on archive.org

... the Atlanta Games in 1996, the first such event to have its own website

http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174839/http://www.atlanta.olympic.org/

The imagemaps and CGIs are dead, but all the news articles and photos seem to be there.

I didn't try the audio streaming but if anyone wants to give it a go the plugin requires Netscape Navigator v2 or higher running on Windows 95 or NT :-)

WTF?

Did you ever consider that anyone who has worked on the Olympic Park Mobile Coverage project might read this before you put this generic BS together??

Practical output from MEG???!!! Too much information shielded due to commercial sensitivities to be useful.

Femtocells in the Park?? Er no unless there are a couple hidden.

What about the advanced fibre-DAS system put in place to keep the public covered without them having to see the mobile infrastructure in the stadia, or the fact that macros were forbidden in many places as they would spoil the broadcasters nice sightlines - not that the horrendously ugly lighting systems couldn't have been adapted for this purpose.

Or the fact that we can build the World's 2 biggest McDonalds on the Park, but providing power and transmission in plenty of time is beyond the whit of LOCOG and BT. The MNOs have a small city's-worth of kit in the same area typically covered by a couple of rural Base Stations and I think that they deserve a bit more credit for overcoming LOCOG's apathy towards anything that they don't get a cut of!

“It’s a real unknown, because they have to try to plan when they really have no idea. On the cellular side, it’s all a bit finger in the air,” he says.

At least the telcos have plenty of practice at this aspect. Especially if it's the middle one.

Good luck with that...

"Still, if 3G is overloaded, there’s always the Wi-Fi, delivered by a partnership between BT, Cisco (official network infrastructure provider) and Atos (official gluer-together of different bits of kit)."

The phrase 'Couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery' springs to mind.

BT broadband packs up again - second big outage in a fortnight

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/05/bt_broadband_outage/

Cisco backs down on cloud control of routers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/06/cisco_connect_cloud_linksys/

Atos (French): "Have a pulse? No more disability benefit for you - get a job."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/23/government-reform-disability-benefits

Oh gods...

Not another fscking olympic games.

Time to go and live in a cave somewhere to escape it. Tell me when i'ts safe to come out.