NTT Communications' SD-WAN Gives McLaren Racing an Edge for 2018 Season
22 March 2018 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
McLaren Formula 1 TEAM (McLaren), a pioneering leader in Formula
1 motor racing for more than 50 years, and NTT Communications
Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international
communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432),
announced today that McLaren will adopt SD-WAN (software-defined
wide-area network) technology from NTT Com to connect the McLaren
Technology Centre with racing circuits in 21 countries during the
2018 season. The decision follows a successful test deployment of
the technology during the 2017 Japan Grand Prix, when McLaren was
able to send 100GB of data during a race from Japan to the UK via
NTT Com’s SD-WAN.
NTT Com’s SD-WAN uses software to control the WAN, providing
McLaren with quick, secure, reliable and flexible management of
data traffic flows. A variety of traffic can be sent via different
connections, such as internet, mobile and MPLS, depending on time,
priority and current network speed. This flexibility allows the
priority routing of key data, such as telemetry and video, at
critical points. Also, NTT Com’s service includes a dashboard
screen to visualize data-traffic status during a race. McLaren can
grasp network availability and required data bandwidth at a glance
to optimize data transmission during a race, giving them an edge in
the real-time formation, adjustment and deployment of in-race
strategy.
Dr. Shin Miyakawa, Vice President, IoT Office / McLaren
Taskforce was particularly pleased with the genesis and evolution
of the project. “One of our R&D engineers attended a pre-season
practice in Barcelona in 2017 and noticed occasional video jitter
on screens in a garage, which made him wonder about the data
bottlenecks causing the problem. At his suggestion, we tested our
SD-WAN during the Suzuka 2017 race and the results were very
successful. We engineered a solution for the 2018 season that
McLaren will now use across the team. I’m very pleased with the
success of our technology partnership.”
During a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in February
2018, two-time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso spoke about the
growing importance of data for both machine and driver performance:
“Each car provides more data every single second than you can
imagine. Every single movement we do in the car, every steering
wheel input, every throttle input, every brake pressure input is
transmitted immediately in real time to the engineers in the
garage.”
“Technology is such an important part of racing,” said Zak
Brown, Executive Director of McLaren Technology Group. “SD-WAN is
one of a number of marginal gains we are seeing from our technology
partnership with NTT Communications. Because SD-WAN offers us more
control over data flows during crucial moments, it gives us an
edge. I also think it proves the willingness of our Technology
Partners to deliver, to bring their expertise to the party, with
the ultimate goal of driving the team faster.”
For more about NTT Communications SD-WAN, or to contact us:
ntt-sdwan.com
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About McLaren Formula 1 TEAM
New Zealand racing driver Bruce McLaren founded the McLaren
racing team in 1963. Since 1966, when it entered its first Formula
1 race, McLaren has won 20 world championships and over 180 grands
prix. It has also won the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Indy 500 the two
biggest races in the world.
Since those early days, the McLaren Technology Group has
developed into one of international sport’s most successful
competitors, become a globally renowned automotive manufacturer,
and earned recognition as one of the most illustrious
high-technology brands in the world.
The McLaren team campaigns the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World
Championship with double-world champion Fernando Alonso and Stoffel
Vandoorne.
They drive the McLaren-Renault MCL33.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security
and cloud services to optimize the information and communications
technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are
backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the
leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN
network reaching over 190 countries/regions, and over 140 secure
data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the
global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data,
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