Computer Weekly takes a look at how we experienced “the most connected Games ever” with our
round-up of technology stats.
The technology behind the Olympics largely went unnoticed, which is an indication of its
success. “Delivering the technology for the Games requires the organising committee and
all of our partners to work together as one team to deliver an incredibly complex technology
solution,” said Gerry Pennell, CIO for LOCOG.
Here are some of the key stats which chart how technology enabled us to enjoy the historic
event:
- London2012.com became the most popular sports website
in the world. It had 38.3 billion page views, peaking at 96,871 page views per second.
- Some1.2 PetaBytes of data were transferred over the
website, with a peak of rate of 22.8 Gbits/s. On the busiest day there were 13.1million unique
visitors.
- During the Games, the Olympic network which connects 94
locations (including 34 competition venues) carried 961 TerraBytes of
information.
- Olympic traffic to bbc.co.uk exceeded that for the
entire BBC coverage of FIFA World Cup 2010 games. On the busiest day, the BBC delivered 2.8ptbs,
with the peak traffic moment occurring when Bradley Wiggins won Gold and we shifted 700 Gb/s.
- The BBC saw 12 million requests for video on
mobile across the whole of the Games.
- During
the Games, daily video traffic over BT’s retail broadband network increased on average by
19%
- Atos transmitted the results to the world’s
commentators in 0.3 seconds.
- Around 13.2 million minutes (or 220,000 hours) of BT
Wi-fi were used across the Olympic Park venues.
- Acer provided 13,500 desktops; 2,900 notebooks; 950
servers and storage systems and a number of tablet PCs.