Tour de force by local tech takes yellow jersey
SA's Dimension Data provides hi-tech gear for Tour de France
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Paris on Sunday for one of the great sporting spectacles of the world as the 2017 edition of the Tour de France reached its climax along the Champs-Élysées. While those on the ground will have the best live view of the race, millions more people will have unprecedented access to second-by-second analysis. This year has seen the most intensive data gathering and sharing in the history of the race. Coverage has been transformed for both media and fans as a flood of statistics pours into broadcast feeds, as well as into the Tour mobile app and website - and all the technology is provided by a South African company. Dimension Data, now a subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT but still firmly positioned as a South Africa-based business, was first approached in 2015 to help transform the race. Tour de France owners Amaury Sport Organisation had until then depended on motorbike monitoring, two-way radios, and sharing the inform...
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