DFT laserlink
case study
KMH Group save the day when the Department for Transport found its relocation plans jeopardised by a missing
communications link.
Luke Wooley is an IT manager with the Department for Transport whose responsibility includes handling the IT requirements for the North West
Assessment Panel, part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
A long planned move by one of the regional DFT offices into new premises was put at real risk recently when it turned out that despite giving plenty of
notice, the supplier of a leased line link into the new building would not have the vital communications installed and on line by the move date. The situation
had ‘major catastrophe’ written all over it as the move had been planned with almost military precision. Orders had been placed with moving contractors,
electricians, decorators, office furniture suppliers and a myriad of others involved. Everything was to transfer over one weekend with a seamless transition
taking place. Operations would cease on the Friday in the old building and recommence in the new building on the following Monday morning.
Luke Wooley contacted KMH Group and asked them to provide their technical expertise to see if a solution could be devised. Fortunately, a KMH
executive, who was in London at the time, answered his client’s desperate plea for help and went north literally there and then!
With only 20 metres between the old and the new sites and a clear line of sight, a scheme was able to
be devised using a Wireless Excellence - CableFree Gigabitlaser link between the two buildings thus
enabling staff located in the new building to link back to the operational leased line facility in the
premises they had just vacated! The solution was designed with the manufacturer Wireless Excellence
and provided a full-duplex connection with a bandwidth of up to 1.5Gbps.