Once again, Orange will be bringing this year all the emotions of the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes with Zwift to the world. From Bilbao to the Champs-Elysées, Orange will be deploying an unprecedented technical system to meet the challenges of the Tour (‘La Grande Boucle’), such as the Puy de Dôme stage where, for the first time, six different technical zones will be interconnected.
Due to the growing connectivity needs of organisers, media and the public on the roadside, Orange will increase the connection capacity of each stage by five – 10GB links will be deployed on all stages, compared with 2GB in 2022. These boosted speeds and the mobile infrastructures deployed (13 4G/5G relays will remain in operation after the stages) will allow the best of the world’s third-biggest sporting events to be broadcasted. In 2022, the Briançon – Alpe d’Huez stage recorded 32 million connections and 12.7 million SMS messages sent.
Orange and the Tour de France 2023 in figures
- 450 online technicians and supervisors
- 54 experts and technicians mobilised at every stage
- 36 technicians working day and night on the race
- 10 female technicians on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
- 38km of cables deployed at each finish line area
- Six Wi-Fi 6 networks at finish line areas and press rooms
- 40 temporary mobile relays to enhance the mobile network coverage
- 66TB of mobile data traffic during the Tour
- 195TB of fibre traffic
- 52 million mobile data connections/day expected throughout the race
- Nine video surveillance cameras to ensure site security
- 592 municipalities covered by 4G for the Men’s route and 214 for the Women’s route
- 18 towns on the Men’s route and eight on the Women’s route are covered by 5G
