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£1.6M SKILLS ACADEMY
TO OPEN IN BILLINGHAM
ODYSSEY COMPLETES
RECORD WI-FI JOB
We've got skills - pictured
(left to right) is Jason
Faulkner, Assistant
Principal Curriculum
for Stockton Riverside
College, Councillor Ann
McCoy, Stockton Council’s
Cabinet Member for
Children and Young People,
Mike Smith, Architectural
Technologist for Stockton
Council, Simon White,
Head of Egglescliffe School
and Richard Poundford,
Head of Regeneration and
Economic Development.
MARKETING FIRM
REBRANDS
Getting connected - Mike Odysseas (left) and Paul Miller
(right), Procurement Manager at Coveris Rigid UK, using
the Wi-Fi network at The Drum.
S
tockton telecommunications specialist
Odyssey Systems has completed one
of its biggest projects to date, which
included the creation of a 264,000 sq. ft. WiFi zone at a factory in Chester-le-Street.
Odyssey was appointed by Coveris
Rigid UK to provide a portfolio of
telecommunications solutions for the food
packaging manufacturer’s Drum Park facility.
Coveris Rigid, part of the worldwide
Coveris group, which is owned by Sun
Capital, acquired the Drum Park site last
November after it has remained empty for a
number of years.
As part of the conversion of the building,
Odyssey installed a 100MB lease line
with microwave back-up, 100 IP telephony
extensions, which are integrated with the
company’s other UK and European sites, and
31 Kilometresof category 6 and fibre cabling.
Central to the project was the need to
create a whole-site roaming Wi-Fi network
throughout the 18-metre tall factory, which
would not only provide consistently strong
Wi-Fi connections in office, manufacturing
£10M LEISURE
FACILITY A STEP
CLOSER
Stockton Council’s plans to bring a
£10million swimming pool, library and
customer service point to Ingleby
Barwick have taken another step
forward.
Following discussions with the
Diocese of York, the Council has
identified a preferred site within an
open area of land on the All Saints
Academy site on Blair Avenue.
The Council earmarked £3.2million of
funding towards the proposed centre in
October last year.
Stockton Council Leader, Councillor
Bob Cook, said: “Stockton is a growing
and thriving Borough and a growing
population means a growing demand
for services as well as a need for us to
ensure we improve our infrastructure to
keep pace with the change.
”
and warehouse locations, but enable
operatives to move throughout the building
using devices without losing connection to
the network.
The signal is transmitted through a
network of Wi-Fi units, which have been
strategically installed by Odyssey to ensure
maximum coverage, with the connections
handed over to the closest unit as operatives
move through the facilit