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Bell releases staggering Vancouver Olympics wireless stats
Bell was a major sponsor of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and they’ve released some staggering information when it comes to wireless statistics.
Bell stated that during the Vancouver 2010 between February 12th to 28th their network had the following stats (I thought it would be higher for 2-weeks, especially the text messaging as New Years text stats sees way more alone in one day):
- 1 trillion packets of data traversed Bell’s Vancouver network
- 90 million minutes of mobile voice traffic
- 30 million megabytes of mobile data
- 65 million mobile text messages sent and received
Other non-wireless stats that Bell accomplished during the Olympics are:
- 750,000 calls made from 6,000 landline VOIP phones
- 4.9 billion bytes of data delivered to the Internet on behalf of the Games
- 1.2 million metres of Cat5 cabling installed to support 31,000 ethernet ports
- 300 million people visited vancouver2010.com – representing 1.1 billion page views
- An Olympic record-setting 24 billion bps of capacity connected Games broadcasters to the world
- 300 billion bps delivered to connect all venues for broadcast to the International Broadcast Centre
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4.9 bilion bytes doesn*’t seem that impressive. Isn’t that just 4.9 GB? Maybe they mean 4.9 billion MB?
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Let me convert some of this for you to REAL WORLD numbers:
4.9 billion bytes = 4.9 GB
30 million megabytes = 30 TB
24 billion bps = 3 GB/s
300 billion bps = 37.5 GB/s
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@Jonathan E – 4.9 billion megabytes would be 4.9 petabytes, which seems highly unlikely.
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@Lexcyn – Maybe 4.9 billion kilobytes? That would be about 4.9 terabytes, right? More probable.
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4.9 GB just doesn’t sound like a whole lot… especially next to those other numbers.
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Today just got better… for who?? Bell’s shareholders?
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That’s it? 5GB of data? I guess not alot of people were streaming to watch it. Someone inform me what was counted..
24 billion bps: I’m betting it’s probably a 2.5G SONET connection somewhere. I don’t think record breaking. Expected to break maybe, but not exciting news. 10Gb/s would be more exciting, due to equipment required.
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4.9 petabytes over 17 days sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Don’t forget those are NOT wireless numbers.
It’d be nice to have a source for these (a cursory search of my own turned up nothing). But busting out good ‘ol calc.exe gets me to about 3.3 gigabytes per second (or 26.6 gigabits per second) average for the period.
A little more digging found the press-release on the BCE site:
http://bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2010/03/01/75406.html
At any rate, 4.9 petabytes isn’t unreasonable. Regardless, I’ve mailed the PR flak and asked him to check his numbers. It’s all trivial, but I’m curious about these things.
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