CLIENT: Wegener DM - Direct Marketing Company
BRIEF: Relocation of main server room within a five story City of London office building with 120 personnel, re-installation of fibre optic and voice backbones, relocation of existing telephone system.
Wegener DM is a successful direct marketing company with its headquarters in a seven-storey building just south of the river Thames in the heart of the city of London.
The building had a good existing data and telecommunications infrastructure utilising fibre optic and copper backbones centred around a dedicated basement server room. Unfortunately, the basement had become prone to flooding and the entire hub of the buildings data and telecommunications had to be moved – fast!
It had already been decided to construct a new, purpose built server room on the second floor. The shell was already in place when we were approached and asked to provide the necessary infrastructure to enable the entire server farm and telephone system to be moved to this new location.
It was an essential customer requirement that there should be no loss of service during the working day so a method had to be found whereby all works would be transparent to the end user. Furthermore, the relocation of the servers and telephone system to the second floor and the cutover to the new infrastructure had to take place over a single weekend.
Octopus Cabling decided to install a duplicate multi-mode fibre optic data backbone and 100-pair copper voice backbone between the new second floor server room and the comms cabinets on all other floors. This cabling was taken into each cabinet and prepared, as far as possible, for termination in place of the existing backbone.
A new telephone distribution frame was installed to the server room and the 100 telephone pairs from each floor were terminated into it. The current telephone-patching scheme was also documented in readiness for the move.
The weekend of the move arrived and late into the Friday evening the existing 100-pair telephone backbone cables were replaced in the cabinets on each floor.
Saturday saw the dismantling of the server cabinets and their re-installation to the second floor. Existing fibre optic links were removed and replaced with the new backbone in both the server room and floor cabinets.
The Siemens telephone system was decommissioned and re-installed, together with the equipment frame, to the second floor. All telephone extensions were then re-patched and thoroughly tested. Incoming direct telephone lines were redirected to the second floor for distribution, as were the digital ISDN30 lines, which fed the telephone system.
By Saturday evening the new infrastructure was in place and the server farm was being powered up. Each floor was thoroughly tested for data connectivity and customer sign-off was given.
Early on Monday morning an Octopus Cabling engineer was back on-site to ensure that any potential issues would be quickly resolved. This proved not to be necessary as all systems were fully operational.
Octopus Cabling Ltd was proud to be part of such a challenging and successful project.
"Thanks very much for your efforts over the weekend, the project went very well, especially the move of the phone switch, which was one of our biggest risks. Myself, Lewis and Phil thought you and your team did a very good job. When we have some cabling to do in the future we will give you a call."
Simon Donegan, Group IT Manager
Wegener DM
www.wegenerdm.co.uk
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