Rendcomb College

Rendcomb College in the Cotswolds is listed by English Heritage. These strict regulations created their own unique challenges.

When Rendcomb approached Branch to tender for the provision of an advanced switched gigabit optical network, spanning ten key listed buildings to upgrade their ICT provision, the college knew it was always going to be a challenge with no existing campus interconnectivity.

After a period of evaluation and visits to reference
sites where Branch had successfully installed
similar futureproof blown fibre systems, the college specified the Blo-Lite system from Brand-Rex with CAT5E UTP providing 100 Mbps desktop
connectivity as their preferred solution.

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MORE TH>N
The company recently refurbished the Bowling Mill building on the Dean Clough campus. Part of this process involved vital improvements to the company’s network infrastructure.

The importance of the building as a heritage site presented a particular challenge. MORE TH>N decided the refurbishment should reveal and retain as many as possible of the original architectural features that had been hidden over the years, such as the curved brick ceilings and metalwork. Doing so would not only enhance the working environment for employees, it would also
acknowledge the building’s heritage and create a harmony with the other mills on the Dean Clough campus.

Branch were under pressure to come up with an innovative solution.

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Syngenta

Branch, in conjunction with HP, undertook the campus wide refit using singlemode blown fibre technology from Brand-Rex to provide maximum bandwidth and resilience for the sizeable base of power users across the Syngenta campus.

Due to the sheer scale of the site GPS coordinates for each manhole, cabinet location and duct access point were established and used to
create a scale 3D model in addition to traditional CAD plans. This model and the GPS co-ordinates proved a huge asset to the team as key decisions could be taken remotely and very precisely without repeated visits to this very secure site.

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Royal & Sun Alliance

In 2001, the Royal & Sun Alliance became aware that its existing networks would be unable to meet the future needs of the organisation.

The company commissioned strategic partner BT to manage the migration to Ethernet. One of BT’s first actions was to issue a tender to preferred suppliers for a cabling solution. Of three shortlisted suppliers, Branch were selected for the innovation and cost effectiveness of their product.

“The Branch method allowed us to execute a big bang migration of 800 users in one weekend and
the change was invisible to them," says Steve Allen, Technical Specialist Royal & Sun Alliance.

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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.