Today, I was surprised to read in Kenya’s daily newspapers that 12 members of parliament will be heading to Rio, Brazil to attend the Olympic games. They will stay in Rio for the next three weeks to watch, hear and smell the games.
Meanwhile, over 20 major companies are providing ICT services at Rio. These include: CISCO, Sumsang, Embratel and Omega.
Major Statistics at Rio Olympics
38 competition venues
25,100 members of the press
4 areas – Maracana, Barra, Copacana, Deodoro
4,350 Paralympic athletes
10,000 – Olympic athletes
Information Communication Technology (ICT) statistics
1 integration Test Lab
CISCO LAN access points. Source: wikimedia commons
100,000 Local Area Network (LAN) access points
588 Information Technology projects
7,000 wireless access points
550 high speed corporate servers
150 IDS/IPS/firewalls
5,400 ICT technicians on site
2 data centers in Sao Paulo and Rio
Olympic Committee Tele-presence (sets history)
Olympic games is a mega event that consumes a lot of resources.
