Once again, Orange will be bringing this year all the emotions of the Tour de France and TheTour 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 organizers, media, and the public on the roadside, Orange will increase the connection capacity of each stage by five. 10 GB links will be deployed on all stages, compared with 2 GB 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 event 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 mobilized at every stage
- 36 technicians working day and night on the race
- 10 female technicians on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
- 38 km of cables deployed at each finish line area
- 6 Wi-Fi 6 networks at finish line areas and press rooms
- 40 temporary mobile relays to enhance the mobile network coverage
- 66 TB of mobile data traffic during the Tour
- 195 TB of fiber traffic
- 52 million mobile data connections/day expected throughout the race
- 9 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 8 on the Women's route covered by 5G
Cities on the Tour de France route covered by 5G: Bayonne, Dax, Pau, Tarbes, Mont-de-Marsan, Bordeaux, Libourne, Limoges, Clermont-Ferrand, Moulins, Roanne, Belleville-en-Beaujolais, Annemasse, Morzine, Belfort, Cauterets, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Paris
Cities on the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route covered by 5G: Clermont-Ferrand, Cahors, Rodez, Onet-le-Château, Albi, Blagnac, Pau, Montignac)
