The British Museum is deployingvoice over IPand aCCTV systemfollowing the installation
of an upgraded network.
Pinacl
Solutions was awarded a five-year contract with the museum for
the supply and support of its IT system.
Graham Head, head of information systems at the museum, said,
"Our immediate requirements were for unified technology with a
single point of management. We also needed a network that we could
extend rapidly as required."
Pinacl designed a completely new infrastructure on behalf of the
museum. New equipment was installed throughout the museum,
including the new computer room and at a variety of cabinet
locations throughout the building.
Pinacl Solutions added to the existing network infrastructure,
which consisted of a 3Com asynchronous transfer mode network that
connected to a Cisco gigabit front of house network.
Pinacl ran a variety of strategy days to assess the museum's
future requirements. Pinacl also beta tested a variety of products
such as PDAs and wireless technologies to evaluate their use to the
museum in the future.
The British Museum
is made up of many listed buildings, which meant there were many
installation regulations. The main restrictions were that Pinacl
was not allowed to interfere with any architectural mouldings, wood
or plaster, and could not drill holes over 25mm without
permission.
Pinacl also helped the museum to prepare for the centralisation
of its IT and administration staff to one area.
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