Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 1st, Ilario Kona, chief information technology director of the International Olympic Committee, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency recently: “The technological innovation of cloud computing makes the Olympic Games faster, more efficient and more sustainable, and set new standards for the Olympic Games.”
In 2018, Olympic relay service company and Alibaba Cloud jointly launched the Olympic relay cloud to provide innovative on-cloud relay solutions. The Olympic relay cloud was put into use for the first time at the Tokyo Olympic Games held in 2021. the broadcast content exceeded 9500 hours.
One year later, in the Beijing Winter Olympics, this innovative solution was upgraded again. In addition to providing more than 6,000 hours of broadcast content to relay agencies around the world, Olympic relay cloud also for the first time, the results of the event, the broadcast of the event, the release of information, the arrival of athletes, accommodation and accommodation, all information systems such as transportation are migrated to the cloud, realizing unified portal, application integration and data integration.
“The Olympic Games have always been regarded as the pioneer of science and technology. When we see the great potential of using cloud technology, we are very confident that this technology can help us achieve the goal of digital transformation.” Kona said.
In the traditional broadcast, all power broadcasting stations need to go to the competition country to report and Transport 15 tons or even heavier broadcast TV truck and editing equipment across the sea, A large number of technical O & M and editors were sent to the Olympic site together with reporters. With the support of the relay cloud, many devices can be migrated to the cloud without transportation. Technical and editorial personnel can also work remotely. Even if no one goes to the scene, the Olympic relay can be completed.
“Compared with traditional satellite relay, cloud relay is cheaper and more flexible.” Kona said that this is in line with the goal of reducing the cost of the Olympic Games in the Olympic 2020+5 agenda of the International Olympic Committee.
In addition, compared with traditional transmission methods, cloud computing can transmit higher-definition image data with high bandwidth, timely expand and ensure smoothness when the number of visits increases, and can also communicate more deeply with AI, the integration of AR and 3D technologies to realize innovation are all the great changes that cloud computing is bringing to the Olympic Games.
“We hope to provide more information to the audience through these new technologies, so as to make more people and young people fall in love with the Olympic movement, thus promoting people to participate in these movements, promote the development of sports.” Kona said.