Case
Study Of The Broadband Project for Cambridgeshire County Council
Introduction
The Projects detailed within this document summarise the complete range
of services, Hedley 2000 Ltd provide to our Customers. It also reflects on the
response times required to meet Customer requirements. The Projects detailed
were quoted in a competitive environment in early July, the orders were received
as late as the 2"6 and 3~ week of July on the basis that all works were
to be completed by the end of August 2001 to allow the systems to be up and
operational for when new terms commenced for the Schools in September 2001.
The Schools ranged in size and style of building, from old listed type buildings
to new architecturally designed buildings, however there is no allowance for
further services to be installed once the building were completed therefore required
comprehensive containment systems to be provided. It also included the use of
our IT services section where we provided new servers, system upgrades, new network
hardware switching installations, configuration, setting up users, e mail services
etc.
At Comberton College, there was also extensive use of Wireless Networking, with
was also adopted by Chesterton Village College. This provided greater Network
Access to users wherever they may be within the college premises. All of the
physical installation was complete with provision of full containment systems
for the Data and the Electrical requirements and also the provision of Fibre
Optic links to provide new backbones throughout the colleges. All of the installations
were fully tested on completion utilising DSP4000 test equipment to CAT5e standards
and certified with the cabling manufacturers on completion and issue of warranty
certification. All electrical installations were tested to lEE 16*" Edition
regulations and again certified with NICEIC documentation. Complete as fitted,
drawings and manuals were provided to each of the Customers on completion.
As stated the whole of the works commenced the 3rd week of July and was completed
by the end of August 2001, a period of 6 weeks i.e. the Summer School closures.
The overall contract value for all of the works detailed was in the excess of £230
000.00. The Project required extensive Project Management services and 2 Project
Directors were assigned to control the work from start to finish, in excess of
20 installation operatives were deployed with all the work being successfully
completed and handed over on time.
This Project forms part of the Governments initiative to provide Broadband access
to Schools throughout the UK and internet Access into the Classrooms. We are
proud to be associated with the Project and detailed at the end is information
regarding Customer Contact details for references etc.
What this document clearly demonstrates, is the Company's ability to react quickly
to a large scale or small scale Project, provide the quality of Services at all
times and meet Customer expectations in a varied range of situations and demands.
Schools
St Ivo's School - Cambridgeshire
 Installation
consisted of a new Fibre Optic Backbone Distribution Installation
to Service all parts of the School. Data Cabinets were installed at all building
locations from where CAT5e Cabling was installed to serve ICT suites and other
users around the School, a total of 157 Cat5e Outlets were provided including
full containment systems.
All data cabinets were provided with a clean 13Amp
Power Supply utilising surge protected connection points and 5way surge protected
PDU's in the Data Cabinets. The whole of the Installation was tested to Cat5e
Standards and IEE 16th edition Electrical Wiring Installation regulations.
Comberton
Village College
 This
Project consisted of a complete installation from the server room to the desktop.
The installation was initially to upgrade all the Network Hardware Equipment
to provide a gigabit backplane throughout the whole school. At main server we
utilised a Cisco 4006 distribution switch that provided Gigabit Fibre Optic
connections to all remote Data Cabinets, a total of 14No.
In each of the Data
Cabinets Cisco 3548 and 3524 switches were utilised to provide edge switching
delivering 100Mbs at the desk top a total of 450 active ports were provided
arranged in VLANS to Segregate admin and curriculum services. 4 Core Fibre Optic
Cables linked all the Data Cabinets to the main Server Room Cabinet. Within
the Server room 2No new Raid protected servers complete with backup facilities
were provided.
The whole of the installation was upgraded to Microsoft Server
2000 and the Desktops were upgraded to Windows 2000. Floodwiring of Cat5e cabling
was undertaken in the whole of the existing School, providing a total of 720
Cat5e Data Outlets, 13Amp Power Supplies were also installed to the Data Cabinets,
which in turn served surge protected 5 way PDU units. Overlaying the whole installation
a complete Wireless Network Installation was provided, utilising Enterasys wireless
access routers to 27No locations to provide overall 11 Mbs coverage to the School,
which in the future will have the facility to upgrade to 54 Mbs.
The wireless
installation is provided for utilisation by teachers to allow them to remain
logged onto the Network at all times during class changes and change of classrooms
etc. the whole of the installation was tested to Cat5e standards, Fibre Optic
Db loss and IEE 16th Edition regulations for the 13Amp Power supplies provided
to the Data Cabinets.
 Harston
and Newton Primary School
New CAT5e installations were installed into both
areas of the building. These were linked utilising 4core
fibre optic cables from 2 new data cabinets installed at
each building location. Fibre optic cables installed between
the buildings on new catenary wire utilising indoor/outdoor
grade Fibre optic cable.
A total of 66No Cat5e Data points
were installed including full containment systems, the whole
of the installation was tested to Cat5e standards, Fibre
Optic Db loss and IEE 16th Edition regulations for the 13Amp
Power supplies provided to the Data Cabinets.
Chesterton
Village College
 A
complete Wireless LAN installation was provided which was
serviced by 25No new CAT5e data points linked to new data
cabinets throughout the College, 7No in total provided. Each
of the Data Cabinets was linked via a 4core Fibre Optic Cable
to the main server room.
Each of the Data Cabinets was provided
with a 13Amp surge protected Power supply and 5way surge
protected PDU in the data cabinets. New CAT5e Data Cabling
Outlets were provided to serve the Wireless Access Routers.
The Wireless installation was installed to provide a complete wireless network
with access throughout the whole College. The performance of the Wireless Network
was designed to provide 11 Mbs service.
Users can be connected to the Wireless
Network and roam throughout the whole College whilst maintaining Network connection.
The whole of the Installation was tested and certified to CAT5e standards on
completion, Fibre optic cable installations tested for Db loss and Electrical
Installations tested to IEE 16th Edition regulations.
Waterbeach
Primary School
 The
Project consisted of the complete CAT5e floodwire installation
throughout the whole school. Providing the minimum of 6No
CAT5e Data Outlets to each classroom with administration
and other areas serviced to meet the schools requirements.
To
facilitate the installation 3No new Data Cabinets were installed
one main cabinet acting Serving as the core and 2 remote
cabinets facilitating connection of Classrooms etc. Each
of the data cabinets was provided with a 13Amp surge protected
power supplies, a total of 160 CAT5e data outlets including
full containment systems were provided.
All the outlets were
tested to CAT5e standards on completion. New 4Core Fibre
optic cables linked all the Data Cabinets to Provide complete
network connectivity. Fibre optic cables were tested for
Db loss and electrical installations tested to IEE 16th Edition
regulations on completion.
Bassingbourn
Village College
 The
Installation consisted of the complete flood wire of Cat5e
Cabling to a minimum of 8No Outlets to each classroom including
full containment systems. 3No Distribution Cabinets were
installed a 42U cabinet at the main server and distribution
point with 2 further distribution cabinets within the building
all linked by a fibre backbone, a total of 550 Cat5e Outlets
were installed and tested.
13Amp surge protected Power Supplies
were provided to all data cabinets that served 5way surge
protected PDU's within the cabinets. The whole installation
was tested and certified to Cat5e standards and electrically
tested in accordance with IEE 16th Edition regulations.
Stretham
Primary School
 A
complete flood wiring CAT5e installation was provided providing
a minimum of 6No CAT5e Outlets to each Classroom along with
13Amp power supplies for each Data Outlet point installed.
The whole installation was installed utilising surface mounted
mini trunking serving Dado trunking at workplace positions.
A
single data cabinet was provided in the server room, which
was also provided with a 13Amp surge protected power supply.
The whole of the installation was tested and certified to
CAT5e standards on completion with electrical installation
tested and inspected to IEE 16th Edition regulations, a total
of 70 CAT5e Data Outlets were provided. |
