on the case Cattle grid
The connection between cattle and the latest in wireless networking is not immediately apparent but it was put to very good effect at the Romsey Show this year. DEFRA and the British Cattle Movement Service require notification of the location of all the livestock in the country and in previous years that has meant time consuming scanning and reporting by officials at the show,
which took place at Broadlands, Hampshire, in September. This year their lives were made considerably easier by the implementation of a Wi-Fi network from Wireless Excellence. In addition to providing a dedicated staff network Wireless Excellence was able to provide an open network for visitors to the show to use any Wi-Fi enabled device to access the Internet. Over 130 people took advantage of this, with over 1.3Gb of information being downloaded through the day.
Safe bet
Geo Networks has secured a contract to deploy and manage a dedicated fibre network for global eGaming company bet365. The 10 year deal, which will see Geo take its first steps into the gaming sector, will enable bet365 to respond to increased network demands with a scalable, reliable and future proofed solution. The Geo managed network, worth in excess of £3m, will be deployed between bet365’s key UK data centres in Stoke, Manchester, Heathrow and the City of London. The new deal will ensure fast and reliable distribution of bet365’s data across its network in real time, at a latency of less than three milliseconds, as well as the rapid reconciliation of millions of daily transactions.
A key driver in bet365 selecting Geo was the ability for the company to own its own network. As well as providing fibre capable of scaling up to terabit capacity, the network topology greatly enhances bet365’s business continuity strategy by eradicating a single point of failure. And with the location of Geo’s network in London’s sewers and nationally tracking the gas mains, bet365 will also benefit from a resilient and secure system, eliminating the problem of service interruptions synonymous with shared platforms.
Child care
A security system from Norbain has been installed at a children’s hospice in the East Midlands. Caring for life limited children in the region, Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People was created to help parents and children, by providing care and support across many vital areas.
Effectively doubling the size and capacity of the hospice, a brand new therapy wing designed to plug the gap in the provision of care services for young people has recently been opened.
As part of the £4m expansion project, management at the hospice were keen to employ the latest access control technology to aid security at the site, whilst also providing older children with as much independence as possible. Using product sourced via Norbain, IT hardware/ software engineering specialists Bramatt Computing of Leicestershire installed Paxton P75 proximity readers and hands free interfaces on 17 doors around the hospice, activated via Paxton Net2 proximity fobs and Net2 hands free tokens. This has proved highly beneficial, as many young people at the hospice use wheelchairs and the use of proximity fobs affords them independence, negating the need to ask a member of staff to open doors.
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