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What does it take to win a gold medal?
A question asked by many.
What does it take to broadcast the Olympics to the world?
How on earth did you prepare for that?
The datacenters need the capacity for scalability and agility.
They need to have a strong infrastructure in terms of redundancy and power capacity.
They need to be large and they need to also be able to be part of a hub.
Meaning, they have a real community of partners in this case Atos, Alibaba, and Orange.
This is where we have a role to play, by gathering various verticals in our community of customers.
North of Paris, where most of the events took place, there is a historic concentration of datacenters.
We operate six datacenters in the area and around the Stade de France so very close by.
How do these hubs work?
We provide the infrastructure of the datacenters and nothing else.
So, I think it was not only resource preparation, it was also technology preparation.
They also developed metro networks, connecting the dark fibre between places where events would heled.
Some of them being permanent and some others being in the middle of the Eiffel tower for example.
Were there any games that posed more of a challenge?
There was one thing that happened.
We just had to reinforce the existing datacenter infrastructure.
They did not have to start from zero.
Was anything different at this Olympics?
What will happen to all the Paris 2024 infrastructure now?
Im not sure they’re going to dismantle anything for one basic reason.
The growth of data is rising on a yearly basis increasing by 140%.
What insights did you get from working with Orange on these games?
There are two or three points.
These games have shown that latency is more critical.
People can run a 100m race in a few seconds and the winners are separated by milliseond.
Lets take the World Cup (in 2030) between Spain, Portugal, and Morocco first.
The capacity of datacenters are very limited.
