sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Completes Installation of Nerve Center for World Cup IS SunFLASH Vol 59 #22 November 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.22 Sun Completes Installation of Nerve Center for World Cup IS Two SPARCcenter 2000 servers, set up in a high-availability configuration, will serve a network of more than 1,000 Sun workstations and 50 servers to provide event management functions for the World Cup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Susanne Vagadori (415) 336-0529 World Cup USA Angelo W. Alaoglu (310) 552-1994 World Cup News Service Delivers Soccer to Your Fingertips MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- November 18, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced installation is completed of the SPARCcenter(TM) 2000 servers that will run the entire information system of World Cup USA 1994. This advanced system -- the most technically sophisticated at any sporting event in history -- will support a vast network of nearly 1,000 Sun(R) workstations and 15 Sun servers distributed across nine U.S. cities. The system will be used for the mission-critical event management functions developed by EDS, including accreditation, results, security, logistics and media database systems. Sprint will handle the communications network. Two SPARCcenter 2000 servers, set up in a high-availability configuration, are located at mission central in Dallas, Texas. They will control information flow at this international competition, which includes 52 games and constitutes world's largest single sporting event. The World Cup USA `94 information system will provide instantaneous distribution of information to a cumulative television audience of 32 billion viewers in more than 170 countries and to more than 3.6 million spectators across the United States. With Sun's most powerful servers driving this advanced computer network, 25,000 World Cup staff, 5,000 official participants and 7500 members of the global press corps will have real-time, on-line access to information at all nine game sites. "We see the delivery and installation of these systems as the kick off to the most sophisticated and successful World Cup ever," said Bill Alaoglu, director of technology at World Cup. "Sun's client-server technology has given us the capability to set a new standard for this and other major sporting events." All systems will be supported by SunService, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business. World Cup News Service Available EDS, World Cup's systems integrator, is putting together the hardware and software elements of the overall system through programming, installation, support and training. World Cup News Service, the event's premier application, fully optimizes Sun's client-server environment using Sybase(R)System 10(TM) and the Sybase tools product Gain Momentum. This service relies on SPARCstation(TM) LX front-end machines at all nine game locations that will be able to access a Sybase client-server relational database on the back-end database server. Planned touch screen commands will let users query the FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) database running on a SPARCcenter 2000 at an EDS Dallas datacenter. Historical soccer data, player biographies, photographs, and other relevant statistical information will be readily available and immediately accessible by the media via the World Cup News Service. Communication with the database server will be transparent to the user and will be carried via the Sprint all-digital, fibre-optic network. Equipped with SPARCstations that have video, text and data capabilities, World Cup staff are being trained on the systems in all nine U.S venue cities. They will be able to access event, office and database management applications on their desktops, create photo identification badges and player biographies for the media, and distribute real-time results to broadcast media. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's leading supplier of open client-server computing solutions, is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun is the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup Soccer 1994. 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