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Março 2012 Índice Geral
16/03/12
• Copa das Confederações em 2013... Copa
do mundo em 2014... Olimpíadas em 2016...
de J. R. Smolka smolka@terra.com.br por
yahoogrupos.com.br
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data 15 de março de 2012 17:04
assunto [wireless.br] Copa das Confederações em 2013... Copa do mundo em 2014...
Olimpíadas em 2016...
O
artigo da Tech Republic reproduzido abaixo dá uma ideia do tamanho do
desafio para a infraestrutura de telecom nos eventos que se aproximam. Tudo
aquilo que está sendo apresentado como novidade para Londres 2012 será "business
as usual" nos próximos eventos.
Para a Copa das Confederações será aceitável que as novas facilidades
tecnológicas estejam apenas nas imediações dos estádios. Para a Copa do mundo já
será esperado que algumas destas tecnologias (principalmente mobile payments
via near field communications - NFC) estejam disponíveis pelo menos em
hotéis, shopping centers e áreas de grande concentração de torcedores. Para as
Olimpíadas pode apostar que tudo isto será considerado o mínimo aceitável. Em
toda a cidade, além dos locais dos jogos e da vila olímpica.
A que coloca a seguinte pergunta: se Londres 2012 está nest nível, onde estará a
demanda por serviços de avançados de telecom em 2013, 2014 e 2016? Qual é o
roadmap de serviços inovadores esperado até lá? E que espécie de
infraestrutura será necessária para suportar isto tudo? Transmissão dos jogos em
HD 3D passará a ser trivial, e não mais novidade. E dispositivos móveis com
capacidade de recepção HD também serão comuns.
Não vi nenhuma notícia sobre isto (a não ser as notícias padronizadas sobre
implantação de redes móveis 4G). O que está sendo pensado sobre Wi-Fi
offloading? Sobre fiber to the premises? Sobre het-nets e CDNs?
Haverá evolução para HSPA+?
Senhores jornalistas especializados, está na hora de obter este tipo de
informação.
[ ]'s
J. R. Smolka
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London 2012 Olympics: Tech on the starting blocks
By Steve Ranger
March 15, 2012, 10:37 AM PDT
The London 2012 Olympic Games will claim a number of technology firsts, from
free wi-fi on the London Underground to mobile payments and 3D TV.
With 134 days to go until the Games opening ceremony, much of the infrastructure
for the Games is nearing completion. Organisers today unveiled the first
completed apartments in the Olympic village, which will be home to 16,000
athletes and team officials during the Games, and 6,200 athletes and team
officials plus 1,000 referees and umpires during the Paralympic Games.
The athletes in the 2,800 apartments will have access to wi-fi and BT’s 100Mbps
fibre-to-the-premises broadband service.
Also, earlier this week it was announced that Virgin Media will offer free wi-fi
at over 80 underground stations during the summer. After that period it will be
available as part of Virgin’s broadband and mobile subscriptions and as pay as
you go.
The London 2012 Games is going to be bandwidth-intensive - not just because of
spectators with smartphones and tablets. BT, which is responsible for the
networking at the Games, is providing four times the network capacity of the
Beijing Games four years ago.
Howard Dickel, who heads BT’s London 2012 delivery and legacy programmes, said
the company had put in place the same amount of fibre that would support a city
the size of Manchester, largely because of the huge amounts of video and images
being sent over its infrastructure.
BT’s single voice and data network across 94 locations - including the Olympic
Village and 34 competition venues - will also support 80,000 connections, 16,500
fixed telephone lines and features 5,500km of internal cabling and 1,800
wireless access points. At peak times during the Games, the network traffic is
expected to hit 60Gbps.
The fibre broadband networks will remain in place after the Games, while the
Olympic Village will become a new neighbourhood for east London, with 2,818 new
homes.
Other technologies to be showcased at the Games include near-field
communications mobile payments from Visa and Samsung, while the BBC will
broadcast live 3D coverage to homes across the UK as part of a 3D trial, with
coverage including the opening and closing ceremonies and the men’s 100m final.
Sean Taylor of Panasonic, which is providing some of the 3D technologies, said:
“Each Games, from a technology perspective, tries to have a first. London will
be the first HD and 3D Games.”
However, the athletes are unlikely to pay much attention to their high-tech
surroundings. “The biggest challenge is getting a bit of privacy and bit of
quiet,” said Jonathan Edwards, Olympic gold medallist and chair of the Games’
Athletes Committee.