Toronto Pan Am Games: some fun facts about the tech setup

TORONTO — Calling them “the most digital Pan Am Games in history”, Cisco Canada shared some fun facts about the technology used for the recent Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games in a press release issued Friday.Among the tech highlights:The Ethernet and dark fibre cable required to connect the Games and all of the 57 venues was longer than 232 CN Towers laid end-to end.The Cisco network provided more than 2.4 million hours of free Wi-Fi throughout the Games, equivalent to 274 years of continuous wireless access.More than 18,000 wired LAN ports and 2,000 wireless access points were installed across Games...