By Nick Heath, 18 March 2009 11:06
The Olympic Village will be based where the white cranes are in the background of this picture. Up to 16,000 athletes will live in village apartments, which after the event will be turned into community homes.
New primary and secondary schools for more than 1,400 pupils will also be built on the site, and after the Games both the housing and schools should benefit from the high-speed fibre links into Olympic Park.
BT recently revealed it is investing 640,000 man hours in building and testing the network infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics. Every second the network will carry 6GB of information - the equivalent of 6,000 novels every five seconds, according to BT.
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