In a high-profile publicity stunt, Vodacom Business' Metro Ethernet Fibre network (Metro E) yesterday beat 2008 Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton to the chequered flag.
In a challenge over three laps yesterday, Hamilton raced around the 4.2km Kyalami Race Track, in Johannesburg, against a data capsule of 5.4GB of data transmitted across Vodacom Business' Metro E network, from Midrand to Sandton, says the operator.
The 5.4GB of data was enough to contain about five full-length movies of about 1GB each, Vodacom says. Hamilton was competing in a Mercedes-Benz AMG C63, which has a top speed of 250km/h.
On the third non-standing race lap, Hamilton's time of two minutes exactly matched that of the data capsule; but his first and second lap times, of 2m'11s and 2m'09s respectively, allowed Metro E to take the overall race on average lap times, says Vodacom.
Ermano Quartero, managing executive of products and services at Vodacom Business, says: “Metro E provides the capacity and speed to fulfil all big business' mission-critical and time-sensitive connectivity needs - reliably and cost-effectively. With Metro E, businesses have access to a super-fast, high-capacity fibre connection, giving them greater control over what they send and how they connect and communicate.”
Hamilton said about the race: “This was a unique challenge - I'm used to racing against a person and not technology. The moment I got into my car I knew that the speed at which the information travels would be very hard to beat - however, that was the challenge.”
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