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WHY NORTEL? "What drew us to Nortel was the level of commitment they were prepared to make in terms of how engaged they would be as an organization and the caliber of the people they were bringing in. We needed a vendor we could put our faith into to be a true partner. We also liked the fact that they gave us the opportunity to have one end-to-end network. It helps us with interoperability and it gives us accountability: one team to go to, to resolve any issues." - Andy Platten, VP of technical infrastructure, VANOC

The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games * (VANOC) was established on September 30, 2003. The Committee's mandate is to support and promote the development of sport in Canada by planning, organizing, financing and staging the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

VANOC, with the assistance of its exclusive Telecommunications Services Provider, Bell Canada, needs to deliver a single, highly secure and reliable infrastructure across 15 geographically dispersed Vancouver and Whistler Games and support venues, meeting the voice, video and data communications needs of as many as 90,000 individuals (media, athletes, officials, Olympic and Paralympic family, workforce and volunteers) and a million plus spectators. The network must have the flexibility to accommodate a huge number of individuals with a variety of connected devices and provide simple and secure access to subscribed services at any time, from anywhere- a true Hyperconnectivity challenge.

Nortel, the Official Converged Network Supplier for the 2010 Winter Games , will be providing converged Local Area Network (LAN) equipment to VANOC to support the networking needs of their different venues.

Nortel will also be providing converged Wide Area Networking equipment to Bell Canada as they build a core IP network dedicated to the Games, to enable secure and reliable communications among all event locations.

• Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switches with Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 to meet the reliability and bandwidth demands of the games.
• Nortel Communication Servers and IP phones for robust VoIP services
• Mobility, enabled through Nortel's WLAN technology and through an expansion of existing cellular facilities
• Airtight security for both wired and wireless access using best-in-breed firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPNs with Nortel's Secure Network Access technology playing a key role in authenticating users and allowing appropriate network access.
• Nortel Engineering, Installation and Maintenance Services

• Flexibility to quickly adapt to sharp peaks in traffic (common for such an event)
• Ability to provide simple and secure access to subscribed services for the wide range of users and devices
• Increased cost-effectiveness and simplicity. Bell Canada is delivering the first "All IP" Games. Rather than separate purpose built networks like previous Games, Bell is deploying and managing one converged network - based on Nortel equipment.
• Reliability through the carrier-grade attributes of Nortel's technology

• Vancouver 2010