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IBM reveals new AI and cloud powered fan experiences for Wimbledon 2022
IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club have unveiled new ways for Wimbledon fans around the world to experience The Championships digitally , powered by Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) running on IBM Cloud and hybrid cloud technologies .
Co-created by the All England Club and IBM for Wimbledon . com and the Wimbledon app , the new features join a comprehensive suite of digital fan experiences - including the award-winning IBM Power Index with
Watson , IBM Match Insights with Watson and Personalised Recommendations and Highlights Reels – all designed to help global audiences stay more informed and engaged with players , matches and the tournament .
New features for 2022 include :
• Win Factors brings enhanced explainability to Match Insights : Building on the existing Match Insights feature of the Wimbledon app and Wimbledon . com , IBM is providing an additional level of explainability into what factors are being analysed by the AI system to determine match insights and predictions . Win Factors will provide fans with an increased understanding of the elements affecting player performance , such as the IBM Power Index , court surface , ATP / WTA rankings , head-tohead , ratio of games won , net of sets won , recent performance , yearly success and media punditry .
• Have Your Say with a new interactive fan predictions feature : For the first time , users can register their own predictions for match outcomes on the Wimbledon app and Wimbledon . com , through the Have Your Say feature . They can then compare their prediction with the aggregated predictions of other fans and the AI-powered Likelihood to Win predictions generated by IBM .
Quickline selects Proximity to support rapid rural network expansion
Proximity Data Centres – one of the UK ’ s fastest growing regional
Edge colocation data centre providers – has announced Quickline Communications has taken space at its Edge colocation facility in Nottingham to support several high-density racks .
Proximity ’ s Nottingham Edge 1 site comprises 33,000 square feet of net technical space across six data halls , an IT load capacity of 4MW supply and multiple high speed direct fibre connections , including Zayo .
Quickline is a rapidly growing Yorkshire Internet service provider which specialises in connecting ‘ hard-to-reach ’ areas , by building a new hybrid infrastructure using a combination of fibre and fixed wireless access networks . The company has impressive plans to bring lightning-fast broadband speeds to over 500,000 homes and businesses in rural communities where a significant digital divide still remains .
“ As we grow and expand , so does our need for fast , secure data ,” said Mark Seward , Director of Fixed Wireless Operations for Quickline . “ By working with Proximity , we are able to avoid data congestion , reduce latency and delays while keeping 100 % integrity of the data .”
“ We are delighted to be helping support Quickline Communications ’ next phase of growth as it expands coverage of its superfast and ultrafast broadband rural network further across the UK ,” said John Hall , Managing Director – Colocation , Proximity Data Centres . “ Alternate service providers like Quickline increasingly require Edge colocation capacity to better serve their local customers with low latency solutions by bringing data much closer to them while also reducing backhaul costs .”
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