Branch Technologies has been upgrading the fibre based cabling network at The National Portrait Gallery since March 2008. Recently installing further cabling in partnership with Cisilion.

Louis Brady, Head of Information Technology at The National Portrait Gallery, said that he "would have no hesitation in recommending Branch Technologies for any network infrastructure installation or upgrade work in the future".

Furthermore, Louis added that "The supplier, Cisilion, who did the recent upgrade at the National Portrait Gallery, was selected in part because of their cabling partner Branch Technologies. During the pre-tender meetings Branch Technologies displayed a confidence and professionalism that played a large part in deciding to select Cisilion."

Branch Technologies has a proven track record with the National Portrait Gallery, especially regarding their conventional fibre cabling network, as Louis explained. "Prior to the contract signing we engaged Branch Technologies to rectify some cabling problems with our fibre network. This work included testing and re-terminating fibre cable and running new fibre cables; all of this work was carried out in a professional manner with little or no impact on our users."

Louis concluded that "Branch Technologies' approach was highly professional and inspired confidence in the Gallery’s IT team. When problems arose on the installation, Branch Technologies' cabling engineers were flexible and accommodating and they worked well with the Gallery IT staff. In total Branch Technologies swapped out 13 IT cabinets including extensive re-cabling work, all done out of hours with little or no impact on users."

Taken from a statement by Louis Brady on 28th August 2008.

February 2010
Branch Technologies Ltd is pleased to announce the completion of the latest phase of an ongoing project for Cable & Wireless. The project; commissioned by Cable & Wireless on behalf of Royal and Sun Alliance was to implement and enhance their adoption of VoIP for their Pearl Centre campus near Peterborough. The installation was designed to address the requirements of 800 staff, via a 2600 point CAT6 UTP Brand-Rex installation. Spread over two buildings, supporting four new comms rooms (all built by Branch) the implementation featured OM3 50/125 Multimode fibre links x 240 between all comms rooms and server room; all with built in resilience and failover for the Cisco 6500 equipment.

Colin Pyatt of the RSA stated: “I pass on my thanks to you [Branch Technologies] and your teams for their efforts in the delivery at Peterborough. All parties involved have commented on the professionalism and exemplary attitude and approach displayed throughout the project by all Branch staff. This certainly gives RSA a high degree of confidence for forthcoming projects…”

Kelvin Ager, Managing Director of Branch Technologies commented: “Delivering exactly what the customer needs, within an agreed brief, to budget and on time is fundamental to the ethos of Branch Technologies”. “We now look forward to commencing the next C&W / RSA project and to the opportunity to promote Branch’s additional Realtime Environmental Management solution” (www.remprobe.com) he added.