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A smoking printer threatening to start a fire, or total darkness with no IT activity due to a sudden power outage. At the Volvo Ocean Race village, unpredictable problems can turn up at any time. The role for the Volvo IT crew is to be prepared for the unpredictable and ensure that everything runs smoothly. The race is totally dependent on its IT platform.

As the IT supplier to the Volvo Ocean Race, Volvo IT provides a platform that makes it possible to communicate - from the race’s 11 stop-overs and to the rest of the world.

“Working with live TV broadcasts is high-pressure,” says TV4’s Chief Broadcast Engineer David Avellone. “It is a make or break scenario when you are shooting at a remote location.”

60 kilometers an hour in a rib boat, riding the waves along with 8 Volvo Ocean Race 70s.