Professional services provider Deloitte has installed VoIP telephony over cabling installed by Kedington in its new Cork offices. Deloitte’s greenfield office on Lapps Quay now has a state of the art wiring system based on Systimax GigaSpeed Cat6 UTP cabling throughout.
The new system enables Deloitte to implement cost-effective Voice over IP telephony and video conferencing between its global offices. The firm has also implemented a IP-based building access control systems over the new cabling.
John Gray, Deloitte’s head of IT and operations, said: “The Deloitte project team worked very closely with the design agencies involved in the project from a very early stage, and this resulted in a very positive outcome – both in terms of timely delivery and, most importantly, within budget. Kedington has worked with Deloitte for more than ten years and was our preferred partner for our cabling requirements across our three offices in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. We brought Kedington in at a very early stage and their advice and expertise in planning the data cabling infrastructure was invaluable. We set ourselves an aggressive schedule which has been successfully met by all involved.
The new offices cover some 1,500 square metres and cater for 100 staff. The greenfield building allowed Kedington to specify false floors across the top two floors. As Kedington’s Ger Kilcommons, Cork area manager, said: “Deloitte had outgrown its existing office in Cork which is a listed building. Moving to new offices freed Deloitte from many legacy issues and allowed us to implement new features as well as future-proof the building.
“Each desk has its own floor box which has ample room for future cabling. Voice over IP is implemented as standard across the company, greatly reducing telephony costs. In addition, the installation of video conferencing has proven a great benefit to staff across the three offices.”
From an IT perspective, managing the new Cork office is simple. As Gray explained: “Kedington produced detailed schematics of all the cabling, greatly reducing the amount of effort required to plan any changes.” He said another benefit was that Kedington has local offices, making it immediately available for support and upgrades.
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