The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the world’s most demanding global sporting competitions. During the nine months of the race, the participating teams sail over 39,000 nautical miles of the globe’s most treacherous seas. Starting in Alicante, Spain in October 2011 and concluding in Galway, Ireland in July 2012, the teams will race around the world in nine legs, stopping in ten port cities along the way.
As the official IT supplier to the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race, Volvo IT is on a mission to deliver an IT platform that can keep pace with the world’s most extreme sailing race. Volvo IT’s crew will ensure effective communications at each of the ten cities the Volvo Ocean Race visits, provide IT hardware and support for the race headquarters in Alicante, Spain, and deliver hands-on IT support for the race staff and media centers in each city, requiring high-speed access to information 24 x 7.