Lifetime legacy

How BT One delivered a start to finish service.

A lifetime is made up of moments, and for BT One, London 2012 was certainly full of them. Like seamlessly linking all 94 venues during the Olympic and Paralympic Games and connecting half a million calls from the amazing athletes, media and organisers who made London their home this summer.

With 20,000 connections, plug-and-play, divert and transfer facilities as well as many other key features, BT One's hosted IT Telephony has enabled the freedom of voice and flexibility essential to delivering a truly connected Games.

The London 2012 voice architecture of choice, BT Hosted IP Telephony, has already proved highly successful in major public and private organisations."

-Hannah Wignall of the London 2012 Delivery Programme team

 

We've also been busy protecting our customer's business continuity at the same time; providing flexible, time and cost saving collaboration tools from voice to video and ensuring their people could stay in touch and online from any location during the unprecedented events of 2012.

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Experience you can trust, every day

BT One also helps the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in its vital role of saving lives. Before, during and after the Games, we enable their courageous volunteer coastguards to respond to life or death emergencies as soon as they arise.

Like many superheroes. Anthony has an alter ego. An estate agent by day, he's a coastguard by night, responding to emergencies 24/7. He can get a call anytime. The London 2012 Olympics sailing events at Weymouth meant there were even more people on (and in) the water this summer, making it a particularly busy time.

This demands a robust and reliable communications infrastructure, where nothing is left to chance. Which is why the Maritime and Coastguard Agency trusts BT One to provide the backbone for its voice, network and radio communications infrastructure.

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A winning track record with BT Connect

A lot can happen in a second. This summer, BT Connect carried 6.7GB of data every second, as the London 2012 Olympic Games experience travelled on our tried and trusted intelligent network. While a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds was set in the men’s 100 metres, BT was setting records of its own. There was a 25% increase in video traffic across the whole BT network when Bradley Wiggins won gold for Team GB. At the same time 1150TB of data was sent over the period of the Games, enough to cover the entire Olympic Park with A4 sheets of paper, 1,500 times over.

A second is pretty important in air traffic control too. Just ask NATS – they deal with it in split seconds. Which is why they trusts the same intelligent network, BT Connect, to safely and securely handle up to 175,000 air traffic movements every month for NATS.

More people flying safely, an enhanced service, substantial operational savings and more happy homecomings.

By using a converged network, and virtualising services wherever possible, complexity and energy consumption were dramatically reduced.

- Tim Boden, Business Technology Director in the BT London 2012 Delivery Programme

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Guiding safety out of thin air

Joe is an air traffic controller, and works for air traffic control service, NATS. He’s responsible for getting thousands of people to earth safely on a daily basis, and is one of the calm heads needed to help pilots navigate the busy skies around our airports. 

The UK's air traffic controllers need access to real-time information and clear voice communications, to help them keep the skies safe and efficient. They also need to be confident that the information they receive will be secure and readily available when they need it.

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“Given the importance of what we do, we need someone we trust to deliver and manage our network. We chose BT.”

The most digitally and socially connected Games ever. A lifetime is made up of moments. And when they're magic moments, people love to share them. BT delivered the most digitally and socially connected Games to four billion people this summer.

BT hosted more than 450 million visits to the London 2012 website from 109 million different users, equating to 40 billion page views as people shared successes and stories during London 2012. With up to 55.000 views per second at its peak, that's more than the official websites for the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup 2010. That required a network robust enough to scale up rapidly to accommodate peaks in demand, and scale back down when it was all over.

We also enabled our customers to deal with increased demand while also controlling their costs throughout the busy Games period. BT Contact's pay-as-you-go, fully scalable contact centre solutions and inbound platforms­ offering outstanding reliability and capable of processing 1,000 calls per second -mean that our customers will continue to enjoy lasting cost and service benefits well beyond 2012.

A well-respected safe pair of hands is critical. Delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games without BT would simply have been inconceivable."

-Sebastian Coe, Chair, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games


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Experience to inspire generations

It's the same range of everyday technology solutions from BT Compute that empowers Tim to transform the way he teaches children at Sheringham Primary School in Norfolk.

Every pupil and teacher has a single sign-in to access their school desktop from any device, anywhere, any time. Meanwhile the kids' heads are in the Cloud, literally, as they use BT's secure On Demand Compute virtual data centre to engage with the world and collaborate and connect with their classmates.

Simple systems equate to fantastic learning opportunities. And they allow the council to concentrate educational resources where they're needed most. Together, BT Compute and Tim are also helping Norfolk Council with the maths. Valuable savings of £2-4 million all add up.

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