Case Studies
Leading Pharmaceutical Company: Network Core Switches
Intercea: Data Centre
| Ponte Comm has completed two major projects at Intercea's Reading co-location facility. This is designed as a high-power, high-resilience data centre with significant state of the art tier-3 facilities: |  |
· 550 m2 available space
· 2.5 mVA incoming power
· 1mW usable resilient power for computing equipment
· 3 zones with: 150 racks at 4kW; 40 racks at 7kW; and 4 racks at 22kW
· 24/7 on-site security
Ponte Comm has completed two major projects for Intercea involving the provision of cabinetry and cabling during the construction and subsequent extension of the facility.
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The first project consisted of the following:
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Rack layout was designed to support 800mm wide racks, which are easier to manage therefore offering improved uptime and reduced overall costs.
Bays of 13 cabinets were supplied and installed within the Data Hall. Within these bays, 24-way Cat 5e links were installed between each of the 12 ‘Server' cabinets in the bay and the head 'Control' cabinet. This enabled all patching to be completed within the ‘Control' cabinet only, maximising the physical security and integrity of the equipment within the ‘Server' cabinets. All patch panels and cables are colour coded to simplify management and reduce mistakes.
All external connectivity is achieved through a secure ‘Meet Me' caged area in the centre of the room.
High-speed links from external services are vital to the operation of the Data Centre. In order to accommodate this specification and to provide a resilient system, a combination of singlemode fibre optic cable and copper cabling was installed. This included the UK's 1st commercial 'Cat 7' (600 Mhz PIMF) cable installation. Our engineering team undertook specialist training in order to complete this work.
In addition, multimode fibre optic cable links terminated with SC-type connectors were installed to provide a fully resilient system.
The whole system was 100% tested and a Tyco Electronics AMP system warranty provided.
Leading Pharmaceutical Company: Network Core Switches
A typical example of our data centre services is a recent project to provide the latest generation of high availability network services for their R&D sites.
The Network Core switches in the Computer Room were to be replaced. These were integral to the UK and global operations, making the project time-critical to avoid disruption to the business. Planning and management were therefore vital, and Ponte Comm worked closely with our client to ensure the project ran smoothly and to schedule.
The project team worked around the clock over a two day period, and comprised the following:
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Work was completed under the client's change control with a back out plan in place.
Ponte Comm were involved from planning stage through implementation to completion. Together we achieved a 100% success rate for bringing all servers back on line.
To discuss your data cabling needs or for a free, no-obligation quotation please call 01276 63773 or email us.
Featured Project
Network Rail's new headquarters is located in the prestigious King's Place building, near to King's Cross Station in London.
Designed by celebrated architects Dixon-Jones, Kings Place brings together under one roof a creative hub, a dining venue, a conference and events centre, and office complex.
Ponte Comm's brief was to complete a full structured cabling upgrade of the 4th and 6th floors.
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