Elemental, a company that provides video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, said it will deliver transnational feeds of the London Olympic Games to leading broadcasters streaming for coverage in 70 countries.

Services will be used by the BBC in the UK – expected to be one of the biggest broadcasters of the Games -  Terra in Latin America, the Olympic Broadcast Consortium in Canada and Eurosport in Europe, which will delivery live Games coverage to more than 50 countries.

Elemental is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and carries out video processing from HD and SD fiber optic and satellite feeds.

Terra said by using elemental services, it expects to carry out its Olympic Game coverage with 50% more through-put using less than half the rack space normally required for such activities.

Interxion says Games will be an online hit

In other Olympic Games news, European colocation provider Interxion has released survey results conducted on its behalf by YouGov that show that 20% of the people in the UK watching sport this summer will do so online.

Of the 2,000 UK citizens interviewed, 9% will watch sport using a personal device such as a home PC, 7% will watch on a laptop and 3% on a tablet.

Interxion said this will place significant demand on London’s IT infrastructure, with the biggest concerns being consistent connectivity, quality of sound and picture and speed of connection.

Sprint goes 4G in US

One of the US’ largest mobile network operators Sprint Nextel has rolled out a new LTE mobile broadband network (4G) that reaches 15 markets across the states.

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility already have an LTE presence in the US.

Sprint’s LTE network covers Kansas City, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta and Dallas.

Zayo’s zColo reaches into metro markets

zColo Zayo Colocation in the US has launched a new product it said extends the reach of its data center customers in metro areas by using dark fiber from its own sites into major market-carrier hotels and data centers.

Markets include New York City, Northern New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and Los Angeles.

The move builds on Zayo’s purchase of AboveNet in July this year.

ZColo said its Metro Interconnect network now extends beyond the 1,000 cloud, financial, content, IP and carrier networks existing in zColo buildings to include 90 carrier hotels and data centers across 10 Tier 1 US metro markets.

zColo President Chris Morley said: "With Zayo's dense metro fiber assets in the largest US markets, we feel Metro Interconnect is a unique offering that replaces the need for customers to maintain a physical presence across multiple data center locations. Customers are now able to consolidate their colocation assets with a 'virtual' presence across the major Points of Presence in metro markets."

zColo said it is evaluating eight other locations to role services into at a later date.

Hurricane Electric’s new PoP

Hurricane electric has established a new Point-of-Presence (PoP)  in Madison, Wisconsin, which will allow carriers at its 5 NINES data center to exchange IP traffic directly with Hurricane’s global internet backbone.

The PoP provides connections to both IPv4 and IPv6 networks with 1Gbe and 10GbE connections.

Hurricane Electric owns its own IPv4 and IPv6 network and is connected to 52 major exchange points and exchange traffic between 2,100 different networks.

Dutch hosting provide connects to AMS-IX through EvoSwitch

Dutch hosting provider Tilaa has become the first customer for Amsterdam colocation provider EvoSwitch’s AMS-IX 100GE backbone.

The AMS-IX is one of the largest internet hubs in the world, with almost 500 affiliated networks.

Tilaa said the service means its customers can now offer services through Amsterdam into the rest of Europe. It said it also allows Tilla, which is seeing increased demand for connectivity, lower response times and better scales of economies with shorter connections offered to other networks.