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Within Infiniti Red Bull Racing, the major activities are designing a Formula One car,
making the car and then racing the car.
So the public sees what happens on the track which is where the tip of the iceberg.
And what people don’t really understand is all the effort that goes into designing a fast car;
making the components and assembling the car.
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We started working with AT&T once we knew we had to improve
the communications link between track and factory.
And we were impressed based on merit,
based on strength of the EVPN network and also have it very competitive commercial prices.
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The biggest challenge was trying to really optimize the performance at the racetrack.
Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the data from the track to the operations room
or from the operations room to the track fast enough.
So we knew we had to take a step change with better networking and technology.
The services that AT&T provides us with, is we have a EVPN connection
that provides links from our operations room and the factory.
It gives us very adequate bandwidth, it’s highly available and it also has very low latency
so we can run mission critical things across the line
and have confidence that it’ll always work.
In addition to that, AT&T and their suppliers provide fiber optic connections at the track
so where all the people are, they’re all connected on a very capable local area network,
and AT&T provides the fiber technology to enable it.
The network has enabled very rich data analytics.
And so we made a big step but we can never stand still
and we’re now trying to raise the bar again.
And there are several products that we intend to work with AT&T on.
One is uplifting our EVPN connection to have even more bandwidth
and it’ll be more effective in shaping traffic that goes across the network.
Secondly, we’re looking at new collaboration tools.
And so we’re looking at Toggle as a way of allowing us
to use tablets and smartphones in a secure manner.
And finally, we intend to simplify and consolidate and uplift our wired air technology.
So within our factory we have connections to several suppliers
to the internet and to our wind tunnel.
We want to make it easier for people to connect to other people
so we’d like to provide our employees with better tools
that are more convenient and friendlier to use, that have applications that are easier to use,
that’ll allow them to connect more easily either to conference rooms or to other people.
And not only with employees but we would also like
to leverage video and voice and have a very rich experience.
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