Nortel and FCS make Volvo Ocean Race Communications Plain Sailing in Galway

With the world's eyes on Galway for the Galway stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race, no team will be more in the spotlight than the event organisers, Let's Do It Galway, but it's the teams behind the scenes that help to make the headlines.

Galway-based telecoms infrastructure provider Nortel has teamed with West Of Ireland-headquartered, Flexible Contact Solutions (FCS) to provide Let's Do It Galway with the infrastructure and equipment to support their communications needs during the event, including the event office and media centre. With the donation, Nortel and FCS have ensured Let's Do it Galway can rely on secure communications for the biggest sporting event Ireland has hosted since the Ryder Cup.

"The contribution from FCS and Nortel means a great deal to the team in Galway ", said Mel Morgan, from Let's Do It Galway. "We're are all working together to ensure the Irish team aboard the 'Green Dragon' boat come home to a champion's welcome. Over 140,000 visitors will come to Galway between 23rd May and the 6th June and we 've organised a series of events to mark the stopover in Galway . Now we are confident that we have the communications we need to make sure everyone can take part."

Mike Rowland, CEO for FCS said, "The Volvo Ocean Race is putting Galway firmly on the global map so when Nortel approached us with the outline of the project we really wanted to provide support. We are used to delivering 24x7 support for international networks and chose to provide a solution based on the Nortel Communications Server 1000 to ensure reliability, flexibility and scalability. It's an honour to be able to provide support for an event that is doing so much to bring the community together."

Nortel & FCS provided the latest Nortel technology delivering a unified communications infrastructure providing a CS1000 platform for 100 users with unified messaging and telephony services. It was critical that the solution provided was secure and flexible to meet the changing requirements of a world class event. Nortel's proven technology complemented by FCS professional services ensures the event will be a success.

For more information about the contribution from Nortel and FCS please don't hesitate to contact me and I can arrange for you to talk with spokespeople from Nortel, FCS and Let's Do It Galway .

Jody Prescott

EMEA Media Relations
Nortel
Maidenhead Office Park , Westacott Way , Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 3QH
Tel. +44 (0)1628 434190, Mobile : +44 (0)7918 164312

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About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.

Nortel has a long history of supplying reliable solutions for global sporting events. Nortel will be supplying critical infrastructures and equipment for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the 2012 Olympics in London . In addition, Nortel has supplied the network infrastructure for the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games and solutions for the New York Mets and Vancouver Canucks arenas.

The Nortel campus in Galway is a global Centre of Excellence for Contact Centres. At the heart of the Galway campus, the Customer Partnering Centre serves as the global demonstrating centre for our contact centre and Enterprise end user applications portfolio. Enterprise customers from around the world visit the centre to view and work with the designers of Nortel's contact centre and multimedia applications portfolio. The entire Galway campus underwent a reconstruction in 2007to mark the anniversary of 25 years of world class research and development.

About FCS
Flexible Contact Solutions (FCS) is an independent company providing consultancy, project management and technical services to a wide variety of small, medium and large corporate customers. FCS addresses the issues and challenges of building, operating and supporting client networks by maximising performance and reducing ongoing costs.

Headquartered in Ireland , FCS is a certified Nortel Specialist Support Partner, with a 24x7 Operations Support Centre in Dublin , an international network of trained engineers and reference sites throughout Europe . The company began trading in 2002 and has been profitable for each of its six years of operation.

FCS is a global company and specialises in the installation and support of multi-national networks

About Let's Do It Galway
Let's Do It Global is the organisation that was set up following the successful bid for Galway to host a stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. It is a condition of the stopover that Let's Do It Global enters a team in the race.

There are two subsidiary companies of Let's Do It Global:
1. Let's Do It Galway (responsible for the Galway Stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race),
2. Let's Do It Green (responsible for the Green Dragon Racing Team, Ireland 's entry in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09)

Let's Do It Galway is planning a two week festival of water and landbased fun and festivities for all the family starting with the arrival of the 8 entries which includes Ireland's 'Green Dragon' in the Volvo Ocean Race on the weekend of 23 May 2009.

Let's Do It Global is a not for profit organization, with senior members contributing on a voluntary basis. It is run in a professional, business-like way using a team of dedicated professionals with responsibility for key specific areas.