cardiff university

IKM successfully deploy internet capability to Halls of Residence buildings at Cardiff University.

Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, Cardiff University is a dynamic and successful centre of higher education with an international reputation for high quality teaching and research. With 25,000 students and 5,500 staff, the Cardiff University academic community is the size of a small town. It is a community with an annual turnover of £344 million and has over 5,000 student residences with some 7,000 students graduating each year.

Assessment

In 2002 Cardiff University recognised that in order to offer their student’s access to the internet for both their research and email communication, they would have to provide an internet connection to each of the student rooms in their Halls of Residence buildings located around the city.

Project

The university’s Information Services Directorate in partnership with the Residences Division decided to network each of the 16 Halls of Residence buildings. Following a competitive tender IKM were selected as the infrastructure cabling contractor to provide installation, documentation, project management and to manage this over a 3 year period.

Commenting on this project, Martin Milner, Installation Manager for Cardiff University said:

“Having recognised the need to upgrade our infrastructure to provide student access from our Halls of Residence, it was important to us that we engaged with a company that not only had the technical skills, but also the flexibility and management control to ensure the project was completed successfully with the minimum disruption to our students; in IKM we have a partner that achieved this and continues to do so. As a result we have used IKM for several other projects on our campus”

Benefits

Cardiff University now have cost effective, fully integrated internet access to their Halls of Residence installed with minimum disruption to their students and staff; IKM continue to provide further infrastructure services within the university Campus.

Footnote

IKM have been selected to provide the installation of some 1500 wireless access points required for a campus-wide deployment of wireless internet access. This project is due to be completed over the coming six months.

Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/