Case Studies 

Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The Festival takes place across 900 acres in the Vale of Avalon, Somerset, UK. With over 100 stages and 800 different vendors, it attracted more than 210,000 visitors in 2023 with television coverage being viewed by more than 21million people worldwide.

Stanton Cross is a brand new mixed-use development that is situated on the eastern edge of Wellingborough. As part of the towns £1 billion investment, a brand new Primary School to accomodated 420 pupils. In order to provide a high-quality educational provision, cabling infrastructure to support modern learning was required across the building. This all needed to be powered from the main comms room by servers housed in Connectix floor cabinets. A full range of technology was installed to achieve these objectives, including Cat 6a, B2ca cable, Cabinets, Panels, Cable Management and a total of 229 ports.

Chivers Barns in Haslingfield, South Cambridge is a development owned by Trumpington Estate. This vast project saw 4 brand new residential units of 2,3 and 4 bedroom smart living cottages built on a rural location, in open farming land. The project ran throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought many challenges, but was ultimatley delivered as promised and with minimal disruption to the end user client.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hyde Park is one of London’s most celebrated 5-star hotels. It offers a fashionable and timeless base, complete with world-famous restaurants and a stunning spa in the heart of the British capital. As part of a multi-million pound refurbishment of the entire hotel, a full network upgrade was required to improve their vision for long-term improved guest room experience.

Sompo International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sompo Holdings, Inc., whose core business encompasses one of the largest property and casualty insurance groups in the Japanese domestic market. Their operating subsidiaries have balance sheets comprising high quality assets and ample liquidity to satisfy their obligations to their clients and other stakeholders. Further, they are backed by the financial strength of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Company.

The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, run by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation, is a designated major trauma centre and provides all its specialties from one site which is unique for a hospital of its size. It provides a wide range of district general hospital services and specialist services such as neurosciences, renal medicine, spinal injuries, major trauma, cardiothoracic, vascular surgery and cancer services. Connectix have a relationship with the Hospital spanning 15 years. They were initially selected as a supplier after the hospital felt Connectix could provide them with high quality products which also represented the best value for money solution to their network requirements.

Network Rail, the freehold owners of City House, attached to Leeds Train Station, agreed a ground lease with Bruntwood who in turn gained planning permission for a complete renovation of the 12 storey building. The 121,000 sq ft landmark building was to be renamed Platform and the transformation would see it offering workspace for businesses of all sizes, right at the heart of the city. In order to facilitate this, a complete new network solution was required throughout.

The London residential building market is booming, with 35,891 private residential units under construction in the capital at the end of 2014, more than at any point in the last two decades and 45% above previous peak in 2007 (source – Lorema London Residential Market Analysis 2015). Affinity Sutton and adds to Central London’s dynamic skyline. At 36-storeys high it stands as Islington’s tallest building. The City Basin waterside apartments, moments from Angel tube and Silicon Roundabout, feature unrivalled views, spa, lounge and 24hr concierge with prices ranging from £550k to £5.8m.

This clean contemporary complex in the heart of the Athens Riviera is only 25km from Athens. The three distinctive five-star hotels, Arion, Nafsika and Aphrodite have a total of 450 spacious guestrooms, including 75 fully equipped private bungalows. Guaranteeing communication between each business sector was a key part of the design. A total of 396 Category 6 outlets supported by 18 Building distributors were connected by multimode and singlemode fibre back to the Campus Distributor. This network reaches every corner of the business.

Leading retailer Oasis Stores Ltd, part of the Mosaic Fashion Group, needed to increase its office and warehouse facilities due to an increased number of lines and the recent acquisitions of Coast, Karen Miller and Whistles. A purpose designed facility was constructed close to the existing warehouse. A two part solution was adopted, with a Cat 5e UTP for the office areas and fibre for the warehouse terminals and equipment cabled from a separate cabinets situated in the warehouse.

The Petchey Academy has structured cabling in every classroom, supporting the Wireless LANs (APs) and AV (including all TVs and whiteboards). Security is taken very seriously and the IT cabling infrastructure also supports the door access control system (swipe cards). This state of the art building offers a new outlook on secondary education; with excellent sports facilities, up-to-date music facilities, a training kitchen and restaurant and easy access to computers all contained within a safe and secure environment.

In only 6 years Cobalt Park has grown to become the UK’s largest office park and has recently celebrated the completion of over 1 million sq ft of highly specified offices. There are currently over 14,000 people employed at Cobalt. The Quadrant (formerly Cobalt 16) is one of the key buildings in the development, a 100,770 sq ft (9,361 sq m) air conditioned state-of-the-art building. This new development for North Tyneside Council has been designed to house a number of services for the community it serves including Information & Communication Technology.

RM began the relationship with Connectix in September 2001. At this time RM plc needed the expertise of a cabling system manufacturer to help rectify existing problems on legacy systems. In addition it was seen as opportunity to develop a project team for future installation and support. Over five years this team successfully installed and supported 2,262 schools with cabling systems (Cat 5E, Cat 6 and OM2/3 fibre), cabinets, ethernet switches (Networx, Cisco, HP) and ethernet wireless products. This helped RM turn a corner in their deployment of LANs.

Connectix Ltd has supplied the university with all of its structured cabling requirements and cabinets for the last 5 years. This has spanned 11 projects from Kedleston Road tower blocks through to the recently opened Devonshire campus. The university has a total of 24,000 registered students, of whom 9,000 are full-time undergraduates. The University of Derby has a developing research programme with significant strengths in Art and Design. There are extensive computing facilities available to the students, including a computer games suite and a life-like hospital teaching environment with robot patients.

The University of Kent at Canterbury has just taken possession of a state of the art computer centre featuring a 200 square metre computer room and communications entrance facility. The density of the racks and communications cabinets, plus the short time-scale, meant that only a pre-terminated cabling solution could meet the requirements of the data centre interconnection plan. This Tier 2 data centre packed in 48 server racks and 10 communications racks, plus an entrance facility housing another five communications racks in just a 200 square metre footprint.

The firm provides senior-level executive search, board search and advisory, CEO succession, family business advisory as well as leadership assessment and development to the world’s most respected organizations. Egon Zehnder’s clients range from large corporations to emerging growth companies, family and private-equity controlled entities, government and regulatory bodies, and major educational and cultural organizations.

Today Sainsbury’s make customers lives better and easier every day by offering great quality and service at fair prices – across food, clothing, homeware and financial services – whenever and wherever they want it. Sainsbury’s acquired Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Habitat, on 2 September 2016, creating one of the UK’s leading food and non-food retailers - a multi-product, multi-channel business with fast delivery networks.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into one of the leading independent MSPs (Managed Services Provider) in Europe. The company has annual revenues of circa £150 million (€210 million), 5,000 customers, 850 employees, and an international footprint in six countries. While Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. The company’s ambitious growth strategy has led to numerous acquisitions since 2014: Echiron (Portugal), Grita (France), NovaData (The Netherlands), Celingest (Spain), Techgate (UK) and LinuxIT (UK).

Business Environment’s IT and Communications team started the infrastructure installation in November 2010 and has worked quickly, professional and efficiently onsite. Speaking upon completion of the network cabling, Neil Hammond (Communications Engineer) explains; “We arrived on site whilst other contractors were still completing their phases of installation and started our design by sectioning the building into areas and certain rooms. We lifted all the floor tiles for the cabling pathways and ran the cables in situ for terminating within the floor boxes and routed back at the Connectix Equipment Racks. The Connectix Cabling Systems High Density Patch Panels and LJ6C RJ45 modules are quick and easy to terminate and this installation has been signed off without any problems and perfect link passes. We were able to rely on Connectix for competitive pricing and quick and reliable deliveries to our site, making things easier from our project management prospective”.

ControlCircle offer highly skilled and vastly experienced data specialists who design and support resilient enterprise hosting solutions, built on highly available platforms backed by ultra reliable support. During 2010, ControlCircle has partnered with Connectix Cabling Systems for the design and supply of cabling infrastructure solutions and data centre environment equipment racks and accessories. The partnership has enabled ControlCircle’s Data Centre Management team to have a proactive input in the design of racks used within collocation facilities for their impressive set of clients. ControlCircle has also relied on Connectix Cabling Systems to manufacture and produce quick-turnaround, high-speed preterminated cabling systems used as the physical infrastructure system within the installations.