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Sochi Olympics network, built by a Canadian, boasts some technology firsts

TORONTO – Striving for even better performance than that achieved four years ago in Vancouver is the goal of not only Canada’s Olympic athletes but also the technology team behind the network supporting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.Dean Frohwerk is the chief solution architect for the Sochi Olympics, a role he also had at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games in 2010. Frohwerk’s position as the Ottawa-based director and technical architect for worldwide solution engineering at network equipment supplier Avaya led to his being made chief architect of the Olympic network in Vancouver four years ago.Avaya is providing...