With 22 countries competing to win the NZ leg of the 2008 series, it was vital the event was supported by unfailing transmission technology.

So Kordia donned its racing stripes and hit the track with the supply of an innovative itinerant linking event.

“The key requirement was the temporary provision of a reliable and high-speed service that met the required availability of capacity—and was delivered on time to technical ability,” explains Dean Brain, Kordia’s Manager of Content Services.

“We needed to create and install a comprehensive service that could accommodate extremely heavy traffic over a compact period.”

With a great deal of creative thinking and the coordination of five different components, Kordia met that requirement. The result was the supply of the most comprehensive support system in New Zealand to date, with a 30Mbps committed bit rate Internet service.

Working with this high-speed connection over a period of seven days, including two days either side of the race for media use, Kordia supported the event’s video streaming, media uploads (approximately 200 people from the 22 competing nations) and international race team communications.

The track highlight may have been Jonny Reid and Black Beauty attempting to better their two A1GP, but Kordia came up trumps too.

Says communications organiser, Steve Johnson from Event Communications Limited:

“I have and will ... continue to promote Kordia as the number one preference for IT/RF supply for the A1GP NZ round ...Your team of technicians were of extremely high calibre and a pleasure to work alongside. The link was installed in a timely manner & operated flawlessly for the duration of the event.”