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Title: IKANO Chosen as Tech Support for 2002 Games
Author: By Vince Horiuchi, The Salt Lake Tribune
Date: November 09, 2001
URL: SLTrib.com

The Salt Lake Organizing Committee announced Wednesday that the Salt Lake city-based IKANO Communications, Inc. has been chosen to make sure SLOC's computer network runs smoothly before and during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

Experts from IKANO will maintain and service SLOC's network to ensure that information such as event schedules and competition results will transfer among computers quickly and without glitches.

"We are the brains behind the technology that's there," said Debbie LaBelle, IKANO's director of marketing."

IKANO is providing $5 million to $10 million in services in exchange for being an official Olympic supplier, according to LaBelle. No cash in being exchanged in the deal, she said.

IKANO's team will work with the network that connects all of the Olympic venues, Olympic Village and SLOC's central offices. Other information such as athlete profiles and weather data will travel on this network from SLOC officials to the Olympic web site, athletes and the host television broadcaster.

With IKANO's partnership, SLOC has nearly completed its consortium of companies that will handle information technologies.

European-based systems integrator Sema Group will head the band of technology companies, South Dakota computer manufacturer Gateway will provide the computers and servers, and AT&T and Qwest are providing all of SLOC's telecommunication's needs, including cabling and cell phones.

"This was one of the last pieces of the puzzle from a technology standpoint," said Mark Lewis, president and chief executive officer for Olympic Properties of the United States (OPUS), the joint venture between SLOC and the United States Olympic Committee charged with recruiting and servicing sponsors. "They have a proven track record in this type of service, so they are a known quantity."

IKANO first began in 1998 by creating Internet service providers around the country, including SISNA, which serves Utah. It also now manages and maintains networks for companies and has more than 200 clients, including the LDS church and the University of Utah.

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