IRVING, Texas, July 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The first results of
BT's partnership with Williams Martini Racing are showing how BT
technology is helping improve car performance with the team through
real time pitstop practice data analysis, accelerated race video
analysis, improved applications performance and real time
telemetry. A new video case study can be streamed from
www.bt.com/williams.
The Williams Martini Racing team now relies on BT to connect the
race team from trackside around the world to the race operations
centre in Grove, Oxfordshire (UK).
With each race producing between 60 and 80 GB of raw data that
needs to be sent securely and analyzed in real time, high-speed
secure connections are of paramount importance. BT's global network
is delivering a 100Mbps connection speed from every test and race
venue. Engineers at the track side and at the Grove race operations
room can now make the most of the car's performance by sharing and
analyzing very large quantities of data in real time, enabling them
to collaborate and make changes to improve car performance during
practice, in qualifying and in the race itself.
The new network infrastructure has been further optimized
through the deployment of acceleration capabilities, removing
latency issues when race teams communicate with the control center
back home.
Claire Williams, Deputy Team
Principal and Commercial Director at Williams Martini Racing, said:
"The connectivity that BT is providing us has enabled our engineers
to work in a much closer and much faster way. To have partnerships
that bring in technologies that help us find those tenths of a
second, those hundreds of a second, and those thousands of a second
that will help to narrow the gap and drive our performance
forwards. BT have already played a really important part in our
transformation."
Graeme Hackland, CIO Williams
Martini Racing, said: "Instant communication has allowed us to take
a step forward. BT has provided us with a secure link from every
race track in the world back to the factory in Grove. The advice
and guidance from BT across the whole landscape of IT challenges,
with social, mobile, analytics, cloud, where to put your data and
how to make sure it is secure, is absolutely invaluable. Being able
to take advantage and benefit from BT's technology and innovation
is tremendously important to Williams."
Gavin Patterson, CEO BT Group,
said: "This partnership is about creating possibilities. It is
ultimately about the people and enabling Williams to be the best
they can be. Since it was announced in March our best specialists
have been installing very fast, resilient and highly secure network
services for Williams all over the world to very tight timescales.
We share their drive for performance and our technology is being
showcased under the most demanding conditions."
Williams is one of the most successful and well known Formula
One teams in the world. It is recognized as one of the most
enduring and successful organizations in sport and has been
synonymous with top-level motorsport since the 1960s.
Williams has won 16 FIA Formula One World Championships (nine
Constructors' Championships, in partnership with Cosworth, Honda
and Renault, and seven Drivers' Championships, with Alan Jones, Keke
Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel
Mansell, Alain Prost,
Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve). The team has scored 114
victories, 306 podiums and 128 pole positions.
The Williams team has grown exponentially since 1977. What
started out as a group of 17 people has mushroomed into a company
that now employs more than 600 people at its technology campus in
Grove, Oxfordshire.
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About Williams
Williams is a leading Formula One team and advanced engineering
company. Formed in 1977 by Sir Frank
Williams and Patrick Head,
the company has secured 16 FIA Formula One World Championship
titles since its foundation. The company's core competencies are
the design and manufacture of Formula One race cars, and the
deployment of this expertise in running the team's entries into the
Grands Prix each season.
Williams Advanced Engineering is the division of Williams that
harnesses Formula One derived technology, development pace and
knowledge to deliver highly innovative products and services to the
motorsport, automotive, energy, civil aerospace and defence
sectors.
Working in close collaboration, Williams Advanced Engineering
helps its customers meet the sustainability challenges of the
21st century and improve their performance, market
position and brand image.
About BT
BT's purpose is to use the power of communications to make a
better world. It is one of the world's leading providers of
communications services and solutions, serving customers in more
than 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision
of networked IT services globally; local, national and
international telecommunications services to its customers for use
at home, at work and on the move; broadband, TV and internet
products and services; and converged fixed/mobile products and
services. BT consists principally of five customer-facing
lines of business: BT Global Services, BT Business, BT Consumer, BT
Wholesale and Openreach.
For the year ended 31 March 2015,
BT Group's reported revenue was £17,979m with reported profit
before taxation of £2,645m.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets
of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in
London and New York.
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