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Deploying World Class Converged Communications for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
White Paper Avaya was charged with planning, designing, implementing and operating a converged network to support the 2002 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Korea/Japan soccer tournament. [03 Jul 2008]
SCORE! Avaya Converged Voice/Data Network Delivers Record-Breaking Results to 2002 Fifa World Cup With Maximum Uptime, Security and Reliability
White Paper During the tournament, FIFA becomes one of the world's heaviest network users and places non-stop demands on critical systems - from accreditation and security to logistics and game results. FIFA World Cup soccer attracts more television viewers... [03 Jul 2008]
Fifa kicks off improved web services
News Fifa's centrepiece, the football World Cup is the world's most viewed sporting event, with around 28 billion people tuning in during the 2006 tournament. The world football association, Fifa, has signed two deals with Indian tech services company... [03 Aug 2007]
Tech brands getting a sporting chance
Comment From the Vodafone Derby to the Fifa World Cup (brought to you in association with Avaya, Toshiba and Yahoo! Never has the criticism been stronger than with the Fifa 2006 World Cup staged in Germany this summer where 15 sponsors accounted for 25,000... [24 Jul 2006]
Photos: Inside Fifa's World Cup IT operation
Photo One in three million: A ticket for the Fifa World Cup Finals in Germany. Doug Gardner, World Cup programme managing director at Avaya, says the network his company has created for Fifa will carry around 20 terabytes of data - much of that will be... [20 Jun 2006]
World Cup 2006: Making IT happen
News The Fifa network also incorporates the tournament HQ in Berlin; the international broadcast centre in Munich; the IT command centre in Munich; 14 accreditation centres issuing passes to 15,000 members of the media, as well as partners, sponsors... [20 Jun 2006]
World Cup security: Avaya poised to tackle DoS attacks
News Kelly acknowledged the value of the information held by Fifa, which includes extensive personal details of applicants for accreditation to the tournament billed as the largest sporting event in the world. [09 Jun 2006]
Toshiba bets on England World Cup success
News The electronics giant is the official IT sponsor of this year's Fifa World Cup. Anyone wishing to take part in the promotion will naturally need to buy their new kit and register it at www.toshiba.co.uk/66 before the tournament kicks off on 9 June. [05 May 2006]
Fifa in race to finish World Cup IT
News Fifa will have less than a month to install the entire IT network into all the football stadiums for the World Cup tournament this summer due to the late finish of the German football season. Fifa will do integration testing between 4 and 10 April... [10 Mar 2006]
World Cup 2006: Online sale of tickets kicks off
News Tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006 have today gone on sale online, sparking a clamour among football fans to enter the lottery for the in-demand tickets while raising fresh fears relating to crowd safety and leading to criticism of one major... [01 Feb 2005]
Jerry Yang, David Filo, Terry Semel. Can you hear me? Your network took one hell of a beating...
Comment So what can you expect from the Fifa World Cup site. We asked Brian Andrews, from networking specialists Black Box Network Services, to give us his considered opinion based on some of the pre-tournament footage on fifaworldcup.com [19 Oct 2003]
World Cup 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
Comment In the following interview, Tony Hallett catches up with Gerard Gouillou, head of FIFA IT, pulling this Frenchman away from a supper with Japan's royal family, no less. We carried four to five terabytes on the internal network while on the... [27 Jun 2002]
Meet the 21st century World Cup photographer
Comment But before the execs at Fifa and Avaya start tearing their hair out at misplaced investment it is worth noting that UK photographers, working for the major nationals, have caught a particularly lucky break with the time difference - a feeling... [28 May 2002]
The networking of the World Cup
Comment The company was brought to this World Cup relatively late - in autumn last year - so it's had to be spot on with its planning and able to work well with the other main technology partners of FIFA, world football's governing body. [18 May 2002]
Meet the 21st century World Cup photographer (Part II)
Comment As such Fifa is having to provide for thousands of journalists and photographers arriving without their trusty mobiles - all looking to get connected as soon as possible. Photographers are allocated a coloured bib which determines throughout the... [01 May 2002]
