COUNTRY FOCUS: SPAIN
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OUR AIM IS TO PLACE
SPAIN AS A REFERENCE IN DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION, CONTRIBUTE
TO ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
ADVANCE TOWARDS A MORE
INCLUSIVE SOCIETY.
employability. This non-profit initiative has
already trained close to 175,000 Spanish
students since 2000 in state-of-the-art
digital technologies, through more than 390
educational centres and by 780 teachers.
The ‘Digitaliza’ goal is to increase the total
number of new students to 100,000 in the
next three years
Collaboration with regional and vertical
innovation centres, such as Sevilla Futura
and Zaragoza’s Innovation in Retail Center
(T-ZIR), providing Cisco mentoring and
equipment to help local startups innovate
Cisco DevNet Spain. Innovative companies
can also connect with Cisco DevNet in Spain
and globally, a community with more than
500,000 developers building applications
over Cisco’s open digital platform
Santiago Solanas, Vice President,
Southern Europe at Cisco, said: “Our aim
is to place Spain as a reference in Digital
Transformation, contribute to economic
growth and advance towards a more
inclusive society. The pillars of the Digitaliza
programme have been designed to help our
country, cities, companies and the entire
innovation ecosystem in capturing the
maximum value from digitisation.”
of this technology in the stands and on
the pitch using Telefónica’s commercial
frequency band and a standard 3GPP
network by Ericsson will allow for new, more
immersive ways of enjoying sporting events
at home as if you were in the stadium.
The Chairman of FC Barcelona, Josep
Maria Bartomeu; the CEO of GSMA, John
Hoffman; the Chairman of Telefónica
España, Emilio Gayo and the CEO of Mobile
World Capital Barcelona, Carlos Grau,
presented the 5G Stadium-Immersive
Reality in sports project, within the context
of the 5G Barcelona Initiative to strengthen
the position of Barcelona as the benchmark
5G hub in Europe.
Telefónica and FC Barcelona showed live
images from the Nou Camp at MWC19
Barcelona, along with exclusive contents
of the first team’s training session at the
Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper stadium, and
a virtual tour of the stadium. All this with
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The placing of 360º cameras in various
locations around the Nou Camp without
the need for cable means that an
immersive experience can be broadcast
to any viewer at home. With their Virtual
Reality glasses on, viewers can watch
the match from ‘La Llotja’, next to the
goal, near the benches or, in short, can
choose the viewpoint required at any
time, watching and listening to the game
as if they were at the ground. Telefónica
developed a Virtual Reality app in
partnership with VREstudio.
Higher bandwidth and
lower latency
5G is also responsible for being a catalyst
for the Digital Transformation of Spain and
Telefonica has recently taken steps to turn
this into a reality.
The 5G Stadium-Immersive Reality in sports
project developed by Telefónica and FC
Barcelona has turned the Nou Camp into
the first football stadium with standard
dedicated 5G coverage. The deployment
the aim of showing how 5G technology
revolutionises the way in which television
contents are seen.
Emilio Gayo, Chairman of Telefónica España
Over recent years, the major football
stadiums have become a place where
new technologies play a key role in
recording and broadcasting sporting
experiences: cablecams, flycams,
videodrones, strengthened mobile
coverage and the broadcasting of
exclusive contents are just some of the
innovations that enhance the television
experience that 5G will expand on
thanks to high uplink throughput, lower
latency and Edge Computing, which in
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