Health Case Studies

St Ann’s Hospital, Tottenham
We were asked to survey and test the existing fibre optic infrastructure to ascertain whether it was capable of supporting the gigabit speeds proposed. It was found that it was causing severe day to day operational issues; this was due to a number of problems, mainly caused by the fibre backbone. After we produced our proposal, we were chosen to install the new infrastructure of 49 OM3 Fibre Optic cables, linking 38 buildings. The project was never going to be an easy one, as the site was so large, and the majority of the buildings and existing cable routes were of inferior quality to support today’s infrastructure requirements. We completed the project on time, and within budget, working through difficult weather conditions installing exterior links around the campus. The new gigabit network is up and running and now it allows the trust to run the RiO Care Record System around the site.

RiO Project
We were chosen to complete network equipment and cabling surveys in 70 sites to ensure availability to install new supporting equipment for N3. This included collecting information on the current cabling infrastructure, BT circuits, and all network hardware within comms racks. A large number of sites were identified as having insufficient infrastructure, especially Communications Cabinets and lack of Network Outlets in future critical positions. The cabinets were found to not be of sufficient depth to take the new BT N3 Routers being installed. This information, once collected, enabled us, along with the trust to deploy our engineers to carry out cabinet changes and install additional outlets across the sites, many of which we completed outside of normal working hours to ensure the trusts systems were live during the day at critical times. Once works were completed they enabled the Trust to roll out the RiO Care Record System across all sites.