Network Communications News (NCN) September 2016 | Page 13

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Olympian effort

Trade agreement
Sudlows has completed a full office fit out, including all electrical and data works, for Cotton Traders’ new offices
in Altrincham.
The newly acquired 10 year leased office is set amongst several other existing Cotton Traders Head Office
buildings, allowing their business to grow together. As the move involved the relocation of most of the main
customer facing staffing structure, it was critical that the project be completed as quickly and efficiently as
possible. A project of this scale would usually take around seven to eight weeks, however the Sudlows Enterprise
Services team completed it in just four weeks, with the Cotton Traders team moving in just a few short hours after
project completion.
Sudlows provided the new office with an entirely new comms room, cabling and a newly installed connectivity
infrastructure including high speed fibre cabling. These installations allowed Cotton Traders to function at an
optimal work rate, improving its services across the board as well as overall employee experience. Additional to
this, Sudlows was able to fit out the entire office, from the construction of partition walls, glass offices to installing
a new kitchen and functioning collaborative workspace.

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Atos has announced the
completion of delivery of its IT
systems that enabled billions
of fans around the world to
experience Rio 2016. Rio 2016
staked its place in the history
books as it became the Olympic
Games with more digital
coverage than any previous
Olympic Games.
From archery to golf to
rugby to wrestling, distributing
the results of every single
event at the Rio 2016 Olympic
Games to the world in less
than half a second, is a
technological feat years in
the making. Driven by the
maturity of mobile technology,
Atos led the International
Olympic Committee’s (IOC)
IT effort to enable Games
results and other data to be
shared both online and through
traditional means faster, to any
platform, anywhere. It is the
IT backbone provided by Atos
to support the running of the
Olympic Games and share the
competition results in real time
to worldwide broadcasters that
is supporting the explosion in
digital consumption.
Rio 2016 used cloud for
the very first time at a Summer
Olympic Games for key
applications, including managing
over 300,000 accreditations for
the complete Olympic family.

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