Huge wireless network will greet 2014 Winter Olympics

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The Avaya network will be run at a primary Technical Operations Center in the coastal city of Adler, while the secondary TOC and Data Center will be at the Sochi Olympic Park.

Ottawa, Canada—Avaya engineers are putting the final touches on a network capable of handling up to 54 terabytes per second of traffic when the Winter Olympics opens on February 7 in the Russian city of Sochi.  


In Sochi, Avaya’s Wi-Fi network will be split into five virtual SSID-based networks. There will be one network for the athletes, two for media (one free, one paid), one for Olympics staff, and one for dignitaries.

Each group will have its own access password, and extra layers of password protection will be added where needed. The Wi-Fi traffic will be distributed using about 2000 802.11n access points across the Olympics Game sites; including inside the stands for the first time.