Cisco Canada, which served as official information and communications technology (ICT) and video conferencing/collaboration provider for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, has collected data suggesting the event was the most digital of its kind to date.
More than 38,000 photos were taken during the games through Cisco’s interactive kiosks (example pictured from the CIBC Hamilton Soccer Stadium) and its countdown clock at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square (see Sign Media Canada, September 2014, page 30). Indeed, since the clock was unveiled in July 2014, more than 66,000 photos were taken through its dedicated kiosk app.
Further, the data networking cable connecting all of the games’ venues was longer than 232 CN Towers laid end-to-end, the venues featured more than 18,000 wired local area network (LAN) ports and 2,000 wireless access points and a total of 155,674 unique wireless devices connected to the network during the event, using more than 79 TB of data.
“We started the journey with the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games three years ago and are incredibly proud of what our engineers were able to accomplish,” says Jeff Seifert, chief technology officer (CTO) for Cisco Canada. “We built the games’ network, introduced the countdown clock, built two data centres, connected 57 venues and mentored hundreds of aspiring technology professionals along the way.”
