Case Studies 

Cancer therapy, neurosurgery and treatment for spinal injuries are just some of the specialist health services delivered by South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust. The organisation also provides district general hospi-tal services to around 400,000 people via its two main hospitals sites in Middlesbrough and Northaller-ton. Overall the Trust’s 6,800-plus staff supply spe-cialist health services to a population of nearly 1.5 million.

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 timescale, meant that only a pre-terminated cabling solution could meet the requirements of the data centre interconnection plan.

Pupils will benefit from excellent facilities and new equipment. The campus offers sensory therapy, a new sports hall, crèche and a café. This modern, inclusive school that integrates pupils with special needs, as well as being a resource available for the whole community required a flexible communica-tions system that would enhance services for each department across three floors. Dark and Taylor Ltd were contracted by Willmott Dixon (the main contractor) to supply and install the electrical, telecoms, data and wireless systems throughout the building. The project began in July 2007 and was completed in April 2008.

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, Communications, Human Resources, Legal & Democratic Services, Members Services, Regeneration and Revenue Services. A total of 950 staff and the ‘Council Members’.

Chairman of Server City Doug Richardson commented, “The ongoing shake-up in the internet market has seen the birth of a new breed of hosting provider; able to provide advanced, modular dedicated hosting solutions to meet the needs of its customers. Server City is leading this new breed of hosting providers and can supply a complete solution for any e-business. To provide the highest standard of service we have recently invested in this new facility in Stratford. We have an experienced team that knows exactly what is needed. With the Connectix preterminated Category 6 product we can install 10 racks a day with one engineer, once the server cabinets are in place. That includes getting the cabinets into the Data Centre, fitting the basket tray and installing the structured cabling. The power is under floor and is a 10 minute job to plug in. That works out to 30 cabinets so far in 3 days, with the last phase due next week. This gives rack space for an additional 450 servers, nearly doubling the capacity at Broadway Stratford.

When the owner decided to refurbish the property last year it was clear to him that in order to keep his offer attractive on the market he had to add value to the service. He wanted to add a bit of a ‘Wow Factor’ but at the same time he didn’t want to spend a fortune on a property that is supposed to be making money for him. After getting recommendation from his main building contractor he invited Krystian Zajac, Director of It’s done! Smart Home in for a consultation. It’s done! is a London-based company specialising in Home Automation, Lighting Control and Structured Cabling Installations.

The zoo has a total land holding of approximately 400 acres (1.6 km2). Chester Zoo is operated by the North of England Zoological Society, a registered charity founded in 1934. It is the most-visited zoo in Britain with more than 1.3 million visitors in 2007. In the same year Forbes described it as one of the best fifteen zoos in the world. A monorail transportation system called the Zoofari Railway helps visitors circulate and see the animals from a different perspective.

After completing its extensive renovation, the large campus has a number of applications running the length of the site mainly on Gigabit Ethernet with 100Mbs spurs supporting smaller work groups. 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 connected by multimode and singlemode fibre link to the Campus Distributor. This network reaches every corner of the business. There is over 2km of multimode 50/125 terminated onto LC connectors with SC angled polished connectors being exclusively used for the singlemode links.