HANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach – September 13, 2023 – Aiming to accelerate the digitalization of the Asian Games, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (HAGOC) launched its core systems on Alibaba Cloud, the backbone of Alibaba Group’s digital technology and intelligence. . Alibaba Cloud’s robust, reliable and secure technologies will support the first “Asian Games on Cloud”, to facilitate a smarter, sustainable, sophisticated and efficient Asian Games – to be held in Hangzhou, the company’s headquarters , from September 23 to October 8.
Core systems, including Game Management Systems (GMS), Results Distribution Systems (RDS) and Game Support Systems (GSS), will support round-the-clock operations of 56 competition venues and other critical facilities such as the Information Technology Management Center, Main Media Center and Hangzhou Asian Games Villages, serving over 100,000 registered users including athletes, broadcasters, journalists, staff and volunteers from 45 countries and regions around the world.
As the official IT integrator and cloud service provider of the Games, Alibaba Cloud is responsible for managing the Asian Games entirely on the cloud, leveraging its proven experience in supporting global sporting events in large scale.
Selina Yuan, President of International Business, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Groupsaid: “We have extensive experience supporting large-scale global sporting events leveraging our proven cloud technologies and reliable services. We are proud and excited to return to our headquarters this year to contribute to the organization of an innovative, efficient, sustainable and inclusive Asian Games. ”
“The Hangzhou Asian Games will be a new milestone for Alibaba Cloud as it showcases how robust, scalable and secure cloud computing technologies can contribute to the digital transformation of large-scale sporting events to bring sports and entertainment to people. four corners of the world,” added Mr. Yuan.
Industry-leading architecture seamlessly integrates with cloud-native core systems
Alibaba Cloud provides the foundational architecture that supports seamless integration of core systems as well as intelligent applications such as cloud streaming and event organization and communications.
For example, at the end of each competition, the results distribution system will receive data from the venue’s timing and scoring system, which will then be integrated into the central system for distribution in different formats via different application programming interfaces (API), such as as results and news feeds are displayed. All of these are built on Alibaba Cloud to ensure efficient, accurate and stable results distribution.
By using cloud-native technology and running it on Alibaba Cloud container services, the company enables more agile, scalable and efficient event operations. Additionally, there is no longer a need for physical data centers that require large dedicated spaces and maintenance facilities to operate. Cloud resources will be released after the event is over, making games more environmentally friendly.
Over 5,000 hours of excitement delivered via cloud live streaming
The Hangzhou Asian Games will also be the first in the games’ history in which rights-holding broadcasters (RHBs) will receive live footage via public cloud infrastructure. Alibaba Cloud plans to transmit more than 5,000 hours of live footage via as many as 68 high-definition (HD) and ultra-high-definition (UHD) streams during the event. In addition to live streaming, the cloud-based content platform offers HD or UHD images, Games highlights and news flashes that rights-holding Broadcasters can present to mobile or other devices public.
During the Games, cloud streaming will transcend physical boundaries and engage audiences across Asia and the rest of the world, through Alibaba Cloud infrastructure and services in Hangzhou to ApsaraVideo Live Centers of Shanghai and Beijing as well as regional cloud resources in Hong. Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Kong and Singapore.
Before cloud streaming, broadcasters had to rely on dedicated and more expensive international optical telecommunications circuits and spend considerable time configuring equipment, in order to send live images back to their home countries. the other side of the world. Now leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s highly scalable, resilient and secure global infrastructure and its network acceleration service – Global Accelerator, it is possible to deliver high-quality live multilateral content on the public cloud with a fraction of the cost and minimal setup time.
Cloud technology helps create smart villages for Asian Games
The Hangzhou Asian Games has launched an intelligent operational platform to manage the operation of the three Asian Games villages, which are expected to accommodate more than 20,000 athletes, journalists and officials. The platform leverages Alibaba Cloud’s advanced visualization tool to analyze real-time intelligence to further streamline the management system, while providing a smoother user experience for those living in villages.
For example, Alibaba Cloud’s solution uses real-time information to analyze traffic and crowd management. A warning will be provided on a dashboard if a public space becomes too busy for public safety. Severe weather, power outage and fire warnings are also available to enable organizers to make intelligence-driven decisions.
Using Alibaba Cloud’s natural language processing (NLP) technology, an intelligent service robot will also provide all-day online consulting services in English and Chinese to people living in Asian Games villages through a service web application. The chatbot can provide real-time responses related to the services available in the Villages.
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