2008 Beijing Olympics Technology Design
But the reality is that while the games will display the world’s top athletic talent, it will be using old, mature technologies.
A lot of new technologies, and even some mature ones, have already been cut from the roster. Microsoft Windows Vista, for example, won’t be the OS used on any of the PCs responsible for vital functions at the Olympics; its predecessor Windows XP will. WLAN didn’t make the grade either. All networking for the games will be done by wireline.
Officials have even prepared a mobile Web site for the Olympics based on WAP, instead of GPRS or 3G. The site is designed to provide up-to-the-minute scoring information, and it’s already online.
"We’re only using proven technologies at the games," said Hou Xinyi, deputy director of the technology department at the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, which has taken the acronym BOCOG. If China’s 3G system is up and running by the end of this year, the official Web site for mobile users will be more useful to people, he added.
- inforworld
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Comment by Bodog Sportsbook — August 18, 2008 @ 1:45 am