China Unicom to provide video transmission services to the Vancouver Winter Olympics
China Unicom Group and its subsidiaries (the Americas) operating company, Beijing Branch, will be the 2010 Winter Olympics, for China’s holding the right of broadcasters to provide from the China Central Television Canada to China, the video transmission services.
From the February 12 opening ceremony of the beginning to the end of February 28 closing ceremony, Chinese viewers will be able to provide China Unicom’s international transport services, real-time live and enjoy the China Central Television broadcast of the exciting events of the Winter Olympics.
China Unicom Group-oriented event opened a number of Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable transmission channels, through the backbone network transmission to China Unicom in the United States of America in Los Angeles and New York network node, and then through the network nodes and the Canadian partner Internet operators and eventually extended to the competition venues in Vancouver.
The video transmission in order to ensure a fail-safe transmission circuit using full end to end, different physical routing, mutual backup, to ensure service continuity and reliability.
“China Unicom in the video transmission on the accumulated a wealth of experience, especially the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as the sole official fixed communication partner, China Unicom for many around the world broadcasters provide video transmission services, access to a wide range of praise. “head of the International Department of China Unicom said.
The official said that in order to prepare for the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, in a few years ago China Unicom and China’s holding on the right of broadcasters CCTV and the Canadian 2010 Winter Games began to contact the designated sponsor of communication, and now is ready was fully prepared. He said: “We are very pleased to once again provide viewers in China during the Olympic Games video transmission services.”
