Case Study: City of Lincoln Council (Think Tank)

Challenge

The Lincoln Think Tank is an iconic, award-winning building, constructed to the highest standards of sustainability using innovative materials and new technologies designed for energy efficiency and carbon reduction.

NextiraOne’s communications solution for the Think Tank had to reflect these criteria of innovation, sustainability and practicality. It had to provide a flexible platform that would accommodate a fast-moving, constantly changing environment and offer the very best of unified communications so that tenants and visitors could easily make use of the system on the move.

Solution

The Unified Communications solution designed and implemented by NextiraOne provides an agile working environment for businesses. The solution covers voice, video and data communications and includes wireless networking and remote/mobile worker applications in a complete end-to-end communications solution using a virtualised environment designed for an eco-friendly building.

Benefits

• Sustainability - virtualised environment can lead to a power consumption of around one-third of conventional solutions
• Alcatel-Lucent’s new LAN switches are amongst the most energy-efficient available with an average of around 25% less power requirement
• Virtualisation reduced number of servers from ten down to two.
• Access for tenants to advanced communications features such as conferencing on an ad hoc basis creates time-efficient, cost-effective environment
• Agile communications - ability to drop in and drop out of the system provides flexibility and practical working conditions for tenants
• Resilient system (dual server environment) provides business continuity and disaster recovery
• Unique offering to new tenants - best-in-class communications available instantly

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