The Baltic Arts Centre in Gateshead has gone live with a
new network that will deliver up to 1gbps to the desktop to support
artists in residence working in graphic media. It will also provide
100mbps to support centre administration staff.
The centre's attempts to develop cutting-edge artistic media meant
it was essential that the network would support the high-bandwidth
requirements of its digital audio recording studio, as well as its
web lab, which enables web TV content to be streamed to the
internet.
The centre sought advice from the University of Sunderland before
putting together a network design to go out to tender. Telindus was
engaged to install Extreme Networks equipment in a multiple
redundant link topology, giving 550 100mbps unshielded twisted-pair
points and 1gbps fibre points. IEEE approves specifications for
wireless Man.
