CASE STUDY
K
eepmoat Homes is one of the UK’s
largest home builders. Established
in 1931 and headquartered in
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the company
develops up to 4,500 homes across the UK
per year, typically utilising brownfield sites
to build properties for first-time buyers and
first-time movers.
The construction company required a
scalable, secure, reliable and quick-to-
deploy solution to connect up to 100 of the
company’s active development sites across
the UK to critical line of business systems
and data, and to deliver digital content into
its customer sales suites.
The company implemented Cradlepoint’s
cloud-based NetCloud Service – in
conjunction with IBR/AER series LTE Edge
routers – to provide fully managed, reliable,
high-performance and secure connectivity.
Culters View, a
Keepmoat Homes’
project in Sheffield
in communications agility and performance
and is also able to provide a more robust and
consistent service to its workforce.
Business need
Unlike traditional network solutions,
Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Service is an all-
in-one subscription service which allows
customers to build, deploy and manage a 4G
LTE Edge network. As a market-leading home builder, Keepmoat
can have in excess of 100 sites in operation
at any one time, nationwide. Providing each
site with reliable data communications
infrastructure to connect with key business
systems and data is an important element of
day-to-day operations for the business.
Today, Keepmoat deploys a Cradlepoint-
powered wireless network at every new
development. Since doing so, the company
has benefitted from major improvements The challenge Keepmoat faced was that
many of its sites did not have fixed-line
communications infrastructure available
when development work commenced.
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Putting this connectivity in place was time-
consuming and expensive, often requiring
bespoke cabling to be installed by the
telecommunications providers beforehand.
Keepmoat wanted a solution that would
provide reliable, high-performance and
secure connectivity for every site, from day
one of its opening. The technology needed
to support communication between the
sales and construction offices at each
development and the rest of the
company network.
Solution
When Andy Walton, Head of Technology
and Cybersecurity, joined the business in
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