Pinnacle Bags Olympic Contract

Cloud based technology specialist Pinnacle Telecom has won a deal to provide data, connectivity and voice services to BBC International and its world media partners for coverage of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The BBC will offer UK-based international broadcasters the Stratford Broadcast Tower, a 22-storey building situated at the edge of the Olympic Park overlooking the main venues.
Pinnacle will supply BBC International with resilient fibre connections, microwave back-up links, analogue and ISDN connectivity. It will also supply IP telephone switchboards, telephone handsets and data connections to Stratford Broadcast Tower's offices, studios and production crews for the world's media.
In the last two years, Pinnacle has delivered voice and data networks for many of the BBC's high profile events, including the 2010 UK General Election, the Pope's UK visit and last year's Royal Wedding.
Chief Executive Alan Bonner said: "With an expected global television audience in excess of 4 billion viewers, the Olympic and Paralympic Games is by far Pinnacle's biggest single event to date and further demonstrates our capability to handle larger and more complex projects."
(LB)