Asia Global Crossing wins a Seven Network contract for 2002 Olympic Winter Games and 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games transmissions - Business - Brief Article

Fiber Optics Business, Feb 28, 2002

Asia Global Crossing has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide the Seven Network with transmission capacity for its domestic broadcast of the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games in February 2002 and the Commonwealth Games being staged in Manchester from July-August 2002.

The Commonwealth Games contract was awarded to Asia Global Crossing by the Seven Network because it was the only network service provider that could provide fully redundant fiber network capacity using its own wholly-owned global fiber backbone. This will allow Asia Global Crossing to provide between 45 and 155 Mbps of bandwidth needed for transmission of the limited life of each event and guarantee performance to Australian audiences.

The Seven Network considered a traditional satellite solution but preferred the Asia Global Crossing proposal of providing guaranteed transmission latencies and bandwidth capability for the events' limited time period at reasonable cost.

For the Olympic Winter Games, Asia Global Crossing will provide Seven Network with a dedicated 45 Mbps service from the US via a gateway in Los Angeles to the Seven Network's Epping studios. Remote configuration and network management will be provided by Asia Global Crossing's Network Operations Centre in Sydney.

For the Commonwealth Games, Asia Global Crossing will provide 10 video channel feeds from the UK to Melbourne and five video channel feeds from Melbourne to Manchester via an ATM-based video feed network enabling high-resolution transmission. Asia Global Crossing will also provide additional data and voice services for the duration of the Games.