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Complex Telecom Network to Furnish World Cup Results, Statistics. (Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1994 by Bank, David
SAN JOSE, Calif.--June 16--At World Cup '90, daily results and updated statistics from soccer matches around Italy were put on floppy disks and taken by train to a computer at game headquarters in Rome.
By the time France hosts World Cup '98, that country may have completed high-speed communications links capable of instantly moving billions of bits of data from Marseilles to Strasbourg.
But for World Cup USA '94, organizers had to build their own network to deliver up-to-date statistics and video-on-demand about 52 matches spread over nine sites in four time zones.
"There isn't an interactive multimedia environment out there yet," said Bill Alaoglu, the World Cup's assistant vice president for technology, who this week is working the last bugs out of...
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